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PARADISE, 



LOST AND WON. 



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CONTENTS. 



PART FIRST. 

The Mystery Solved 7 

The Mystery of God's Creation 15 

First Day : Spiritual Creation IS 

The Law of Creation 17 

Second Day 20 

Third Day : Material Creation 21 

Fourth Day : The Stellar World 28 

Fifth Day : Animal Creation 30 

Sixth Day : Dual Life 34 

Paradise 36 

Divine Command and Penalty 38 

Seventh Day 49 

PART SECOND. 

Paradise Lost. The Life of Mankind 53 

The Story of Adam and Eve 65 

The Garden in Eden 68 

Material Life 70 

The Betrayal 74 

The Tempter 78 

The Banishment 85 

Love and Truth 87 

PART THIRD. 

Paradise Won 90 

The Way to the Tree of Life 97 

Adam and Eve Seeking the Way 99 

Telepathy 106 

Power of Suggestion 108 

Faith 114 

Man's Birthright 116 

Character Building 120 

The Son 132 

The Son, the Glorified One 136 

The Three Temptations of Jesus 138 



PREFACE. 



From out of the depths of a chaos of thought 
the author has endeavored to collect material for 
this work, in line with the light developed in the 
minds of advanced thinkers of the Twentieth 
Century. And while it is not entirely an expres- 
sion derived from the conclusion of the various 
scientific minds of the age, it will, notwithstand- 
ing a few side lights offered by the author, com- 
pare very favorably with the recent discoveries 
by scientific research. The majority of books 
relating to science and sacred history are usually 
too dull and lengthy for the masses, who have 
neither the time nor the disposition to read 
them. 

For that reason, it has been my aim to produce 
under the head Paradise Lost and Won, a work 
not only very brief and comprehensive, but also 
a popular and readable explanation of God's 
wonderful law of creation and life of mankind 
as depicted by the allegorical record as shown 
by the three first chapters of Genesis. 



PART FIRST, 



THE MYSTERY SOLVED. 



Is Heaven true or are we all deceived? 
Key to the divine understanding of the scrip- 
tures. 

"Is there a God, a father over all, 

Is there some mighty force that rules the spheres ? 

Is there a deity behind the wall 

Of heaven, and mystery of years? 

Is there some stronger force, some greater law, 
That measures him, and makes his wisdom weak, 
Is there some greater might that none foresaw, 

God, if thou art God! Canst thou not speak? 

And in the murmurs of the running spring. 
And in the life of every humble thing, 

1 read his answer: ''Seek, and ye may find, 
'Tis only he who doubts is really blind." 

— (American Israelite.) 



8 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

The ages of the past have filled the mind of 
man with mystery and superstition, the ultimate 
end of which is to weaken and destroy his abil- 
ity. This error of the thought world has appar- 
ently penetrated the entire universe; evidence 
of weakness seems to pervade the older countries 
to a greater extent than the new. Their intellec- 
tual achievements are still classed by the new 
as that of the dark ages. 

If it be true that ignorance is bliss, then the 
older worlds have for ages been blessed. But 
the truth of this most frequent assertion as a 
rule is in doubt, and I shall attempt to show the 
reader who diligently peruses these pages that 
it is intelligent truth, and not ignorance or error, 
that promotes man's greatest happiness, not only 
in this world, but in the world to come. 

•Intelligent thought carries with it the spirit 
of truth, which the spiritually endowed man can 
easily discern, and by its adoption man's power 
becomes unlimited. On the other hand, ignorant 
thought has a semblance of error, mystery and 
superstition, and if followed will tend to weaken 
man's ability and lessen his power. 

It is from the thought world that man's 
blessings or ills come. Every word uttered, every 
act performed, originates first in thought. Thus 



THE MYSTERY SOLVED. 9 

for man to be a power in his world his under- 
standing must be correct, otherwise he will soon 
fall by the wayside, while a more intelligent mind 
will pass him and secure the goal. For proof 
of this assertion look at the evidence of this fact 
displayed by the new countries, and the newest 
are perhaps the brightest. 

They drifted out and away from the old rut 
and embraced a new light, which dawned upon 
them through their efforts of self-reliance; they 
had but little to lose and much to gain ; they took 
the chances, and now, today, they stand at the 
head, backed with intelligent power that com- 
bined ignorance can never overthrow. This is 
simply a law of nature, the light from intelligent 
thought must first develop before any great work 
can be successfully accomplished. 

The history of every man's life will prove this 
assertion. All great achievements of today 
first originate in the thought of man. By his 
thought many plans for great undertakings are 
frequently developed in his mind; he compares 
them, under a focus of all the intelligent light 
he can obtain, then selects the most practical, and 
begins the creation of the object of mind. Thus 
the first thing is thought, then intelligent light, 
then work. 



10 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

This is the natural method through which 
all creation develops, as I shall endeavor to show 
by a brief review of God's original creation of the 
universe, and man, so beautifully displayed by 
the Allegory, as recorded in the first chapter of 
Genesis, in the first book of Moses of the Old 
Testament. The first three verses of the second 
chapter will also be included, as they are supposed 
by many able minds to belong to the first, the 
phraseology being very similar, as well as form- 
ing an appropriate ending, to the first, and noth- 
ing to do with the second. 

It is my chief object to attract the reader's 
particular attention to this chapter of Genesis, 
for I verily believe that when this Allegory is 
properly understood by the world that in it will 
be found the only true record of God's creation 
of man and the universe. The entire book of 
Genesis is looked upon by scientific minds as 
simply an allegory of creation and life of man- 
kind. Webster defines the word allegory as a 
figurative application of real facts. Conse- 
quently, the reader should not be so ignorant as 
to try to understand those chapters in the book 
of Genesis in the literal sense. I have, during 
the course of my investigations, read several 
very beautiful interpretations by very bright 



THE MYSTERY SOLVED. 11 

minds, but to me they lack the spirit of truth; 
there is something about them that fails to sat- 
isfy the ordinary or normal intelligence of man. 

The allegory, as displayed by the second and 
third chapters of Genesis, should in no case be 
included as a part of the first chapter, as it, ac- 
cording to scientific research, was written some 
three or four hundred years later, and to my 
mind applies only to the life of man, and not 
God's creation, as shown by the first chapter. 

Therefore, it is important that the student of 
today should compare these two different alle- 
gories carefully, and not take it for granted, as 
has been the custom for ages, that it is all one 
and the same, but two separate and distinct alle- 
gories. This is where the christian world has 
long labored in error, and through the fact of 
this erroneous thought have failed to grasp the 
true meaning of God's creation. 

In the first allegory, a divine God of love 
blesses man and leaves him in a state of paradise, 
but in the second the same God is represented 
as being revengful and cursing man, and ban- 
ishing him from Eden. Hence, the spirit of 
truth is lacking and a grave misunderstading 
must necessarily arise in the mind of the reader. 

The God I worship is a God of love, and. 



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consequently, to my understanding, the first is 
the only true record of God's creation, and the 
second is simply a creation in the mind of man, 
and both, when properly understood, are true. 
If my hypothesis does not bear the spirit of 
truth the reader will not be required to believe. 

The world, through a misunderstanding of 
the divine law, has been long drifting in error 
thought, not knowing just how it all came about. 

Through scientific research I am led to be- 
lieve that man was in a condition of paradise 
prior to the acceptance of this error thought, but 
after accepting that version of creation as the 
truth, his condition was materially changed; in 
fact, by virtue of this thought being adopted as 
truth, man is simply lost. With this thought in 
mind, the gates of Paradise are forever closed 
to him. 

Under guidance of this error thought, the 
world has grouped in darkness for ages. The 
majority of the christian world are doubtless 
living under this erroneous belief today. Such 
errors are handed down from generation to gen- 
eration; the education of youth is so hard to 
overcome that the world at large simply drifts 
along in the same old rut. 

It is time intelligence began to assert itself, 



THE MYSTERY SOLVED. 13 

and the chief object of these pages is to call a 
halt. 

With this idea in view, I shall here endeavor 
to present a new and brief interpretation of the 
first creation as I comprehend it, and in order 
that the material world may fully grasp my mean- 
ing I feel that my argument must not only bear 
the spirit of truth, but be plain enough for a 
child to understand. If my efforts are success- 
ful the teachings of the New Testament will be 
more clearly understood by the masses than they 
are today. 

The errors developed during the past ages 
should find no home in the mind of man of this 
enlightened age. Prejudices, derived from error 
in education of youth, should become unbiased 
and open to conviction of the spirit of truth 
wherever it be found. During the last fifty years 
the intelligent world has made rapid progress, 
and the mysteries of the divine law are being 
speedily solved. 

After nineteen hundred years of scientific re- 
search the world at last awakens. A wave of 
scientific thought hastens to penetrate the utter- 
most parts of the earth, and the marvelous re- 
sults attained fill the mind of man with that 



14 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

great spiritual truth that all is obtained through 
God, a divine spirit of love. 

In my pursuit after knowledge I have dili- 
gently read the records, works of many of the 
scientific minds, and it is mostly due to this 
source that I have obtained many of the thoughts 
herein expressed, and while the efforts displayed 
by these pages will, to the minds of many, have 
a tendency to produce a decided revolution in 
thought, they will not in the least detract from the 
glory and honor of the Divine Being, who, 
through the spirit of love and a divine law of evo- 
lution, creates all. 

In the earlier ages many of these scientific 
truths were recognized by all of the old patri- 
archs in their day as scriptural facts ; but notwith- 
standing this, through a lack of a commodious 
communication with the world at large, a mis- 
understanding of the divine law has developed 
throughout the earth, and it was only through 
the coming of the Son, Jesus of Nazareth, who 
spake as no man ever spake, that the civilized 
world was again able to perceive the truth. 

For the benefit of the ordinary students, many 
of whom have already embraced an erroneous 
education of God's original creation, it will be 
necessary to begin at the beginning. 



THE MYSTERY SOLVED. 15 

THE MYSTERY OF GOD'S CREATION. 

The curtain of time now rolls back, all nature 
is hushed and stilled, and the mystery of the 
ages, from out of the dark and deep unfolds 
to the spiritual vision of man. The first chapter 
of Genesis and the first three verses of the sec- 
ond will now be read and interpreted by verse 
and paragraph, a true spiritual conception of 
which will recognize no miracles, but rather an 
unbreakable divine law. 

FIRST DAY OR PERIOD. 

Spiritual Creation. 
Genesis I. 

1. In the beginning God created the heaven and 
the earth. 

2. And the earth was without form, and void; 
and darkness was on the face of the deep. 
And the spirit of God moved upon the face 
of the waters. 

3. And God said, "Let there be light f and there 
was light. 

4. And God saw the light that it was good ; and 
God divided the light from darkness. 

5. And God called the light, day, and the dark- 



16 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

ness he called night. And the evening and 
the morning were the first day. 

The word ''beginning," spiritually interpreted, 
to the human conception of today, signifies the 
"first," and God is the embodiment of the divine 
principle of love, manifested in all good and 
harmonious creations. 

The word ''heaven," as here used, was the 
most perfect condition attainable through intelli- 
gent thought; a perfect harmonious law through 
which all is created. 

The word "earth," as here expressed, alludes 
to all material creation by virtue of an intelligent 
law. The creation of God's universe is doubt- 
less under consideration, but the method in -be- 
ginning was undefined, for we look upon the 
waters as bein^ thoughts, and as they were deep 
they were no doubt in numbers and variety, and 
their condition was still in darkness ; but the plan 
is now about to develop, for the Spirit of God 
(divine intelligence) moves over the face of the 
waters, and creation begins. 

For God said, "Let there be light," and there 
was light. 

This was not the ordinary light as produced 
by the sun, moon and stars, as many unthinking 
readers have, been taught, through ignorance, to 



THE MYSTERY SOLVED. 17 

believe, for the planets and material things were 
not yet created, and could not be until an intelli- 
gent law had been decided upon, but it was God's 
intelligent light. 

THE LAW OF CREATION. 

It was the light that never dims or casts a 
shadow; it was the eternal light of an ever pres- 
ent God, as displayed by the spirit of divine 
love and intelligent good. For immediately, 
from out of the depths of a chaos of thought, the 
law of divine love and evolution began to un- 
fold; the student at the dawn of the twentieth 
century reads it thus : 

/ am God, I am the Spirit of Divine Love, in-^ 
telligent thought, life and truth; I am the Cre- 
ator of all good; by Me perfection, peace and har- 
mony is developed and maintained; ail things 
are made by me, and without me there is nothing 
made that is made; in me there is life, and this 
life is life eternal, let all nature bow and worship 
me, for there is no other God but me. 

The more intelligent and spiritual the mind of 
man attains the plainer the truth implied be- 
comes apparent, and the more accurately can he 
foresee and predict coming events. 

It was Jesus of Nazareth, who was born of 



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the most perfect spiritual and material poise, who 
discerned and proclaimed this truth, and first pro- 
mulgated the doctrine of faith in its efficiency. 
That all who obey it would live again ; and those 
who failed to worship the heavenly Father, as 
indicated by this law, must, in consequence, die 
the eternal death. This is the fundamental prin- 
ciple of all religions. Go where you will, all 
humanity, even the natives of the jungle, whose 
intelligence is only a grade above the animals, 
have an instinctive desire to worship some higher 
intelligence, just what it is they may. not be able 
to properly discern, but the instinctive desire 
is always found as one of the attributes of the 
mind of man, just how this all comes about, will 
be defined more at length later on as God's law 
of creation is unraveled. 

God, seeing that this light was good, divided 
the better thoughts from the poorest, thus form- 
ing a working plan of creation. From out of a 
chaos of thoughts, the method adopted is here 
defined. The most harmonious were selected and 
formed the basis of the law of the Spiritual Uni- 
verse, in which there is a most perfect harmony. 
This is the greater light. 

But there still remains, as indicated by the 
darkness, a chaos of thoughts that were not so 



THE MYSTERY SOLVED. 19 

harmonious, being less intelligent. These were 
not discarded nor cast away by the Creator as 
being worthless, but simply divided from the 
best and laid aside to be used at a future day as 
a basis for a material creation. Thus, even here 
upon the threshold of God's wonderful creation, 
one of the important laws of mental therapeutics 
appears. All thoughts are things, neither lost or 
entirely forgotten, but at some time and in some 
place in the great thought world they will de- 
velop. This was the first manifestation of spir- 
itual law, and God said it was good, and estab- 
lished it. As this was purely a spiritual creation, 
the reader should look upon this light as being 
the light of intelligence; and the darkness, called 
night, as being ignorance. Intelligent thought 
always develops before any great work is ac- 
complished; therefore, we must look upon this 
first creation from a spiritual standpoint only. 
The sun, moon and stars not yet created, no other 
light was possible at this time. This may be 
a revelation to many who have never read this 
first chapter of Genesis with proper thought and 
care. I am led to believe, and I think the facts 
will show, that the majority of people of the pres- 
ent day, even those who claim to be christians 
and who are supposed to be well versed in bible 



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history, have never noticed, neither analyzed or 
observed, the difference existing betv^een the first 
and second chapters of Genesis, being written by 
different scribes and several hundred years apart. 
They cannot properly be interpreted as all in one, 
but rather tv^o separate and distinct allegories. 
Such W2LS God's creation of the first day, or 
period. 

SECOND DAY OR PERIOD. 
Genesis I. 

6. And God said, *'Let there be a firmament in 
the midst of the v^aters, and let it divide the 
v^aters from the v^aters. 

7. And God made the firmament, and divided the 
v^aters which were under the firmament, 
from the waters which were above the firma- 
ment, and it was so. 

8. And God called the firmament heaven; and 
the evening and the morning was the second 
day. 

In the three verses above it will be observed 
that God's thought of the second day or age was 
devoted to the work of establishing a perma- 
nent understanding between the upper and lower 
waters; or, in other words, between higher and 
lower thought, intelligence from ignorance, a 



CREATION. 21 

Spiritual instinct which shall forever define the 
difference between the true and the false. From 
this understanding there can be no mistake. The 
spirit of truth defines the way because this firma- 
ment was called heaven and must be perfect and 
complete in harmony. 

This now becomes a fundamental law, soon 
to develop in the mind of man, as will be shown 
by the attributes of his endowment. This divine, 
intelligent instinct is always correct, and when 
followed, peace and harmony will always pre- 
vail. Thus the close of the second day, or 
period. 

THIRD DAY OR PERIOD. 

Material Creation, 
Genesis I. 

9. And God said, "Let the waters under the 
heaven be gathered together unto one place, 
and let dry land appear." 

10. And God called the dry land earth, and the 
gathering together of the waters he called 
seas ; and God saw that it was good. 

11. And God said, "Let the earth bring forth 
grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit 
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is 
in itself, upon the earth," and it was so. 



22 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

12. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb 
yielded seed after his kind, and the tree 
yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after 
his kind; and God saw that it was good. 

13. And the evening and the morning were the 
third day. 

There was a time long, long ago, when the uni- 
verse was all a dark and gloomy space. If the 
discoveries of science be true, the first indication 
of matter of any kind was doubtless through the 
introduction of atmosphere, gas and moisture. 
''Through the recent investigations of the new 
substance called radium, Professor Crooks, in 
Berlin, and Professors Lodge and Curie of Lon- 
don, have recently proclaimed that the old theory 
of atoms, or that the elements consist of indivisi- 
ble units of matter has now been definitely dis- 
carded. Instead, it is said each atom is a whole 
stellar system of infinitely smaller but absolutely 
identical units, which are called ions, all in orbital 
motion. The nature and identity of each substance 
depends upon the number of such ions contained 
in each atom. Thus, 700 such units, or ions, 
form what is known as a hydrogen atom. And 
11,200 ions in each atom produce what is called 
oxygen, and 137,200 of the same ions, if com- 
bined in a single atom, would yield gold, and so 



CREATION. ' 23 

on. The nature of these ions is electrical, or, in 
other words, electricity and matter are one and 
the same." 

Already many of the mysteries of the universe 
begin to unravel. The old familiar expression 
that ''thoughts are things," is beginning to be 
understood as a fact. 

Scientific minds declare that so far as known, 
''all phases of matter within reach of observation 
can be separated into corpuscles, and that no 
entity exists but electricity, which is the same as 
saying that it is life, mind, thought, light and 
matter. Thus the universe is also mental," and 
all of such attributes are by nature as active as 
though they possessed a mind of their own. 

"If thought is matter, how important the cor- 
puscles sent out from the brain be pure and har- 
monious." 

Science of recent date says that "every phase 
of matter radiates its kind; thus the brain, as 
well as the new substance called radium, both 
emit corpuscles of themselves." 

"There is something weird about the proper- 
ties of bacilli; in this are traits that point to a 
life far beyond the limits that are drawn on earth 
for other forms of life. Certain bacilli withstand 
intense temperatures high and low, and by virtue 



24 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

of this fact they may be in some way connected 
with the uni-celled creatures of the order of 
atoms of the ocean, which illume the waters by 
their myriads." Science claims that the gathering 
of certain uni-cells into a group ''first produced 
the living things with separate functions. The 
cell community was the first great progress in the 
measureless space of time." 

Man, the greatest of all living achievements, 
has the centralizing brain which, in the cell- 
creature plant, is absent. "And which the cell- 
creature beast has only a faulty development, 
through many strange and mysterious ways pass- 
ing through countless shapes, first emerges from 
that long-forgotten first gathering of shapeless 
clumps of cell-community. Thus, the human 
brain is a cell-community, in the cell-community 
of man." 

Notwithstanding the amazement of the scien- 
tific world, the ion theory is now apparently es- 
tablished. The nature of these ions, or substance 
formed by combination, they are rapid in motion. 
Each attracting like unto themselves and con- 
stantly increasing in number, forms the funda- 
mental principles of the universe, or a law of 
evolution. 

Thus, for the purpose of this book, I think it 



CREATION. 25 

would be sufficient if I begin the material cre- 
ation with three of the principal attributes — 

Oxygen, Nitrogen and Hydrogen, 

The controlling spirit of which is God, mani- 
fested through the spirit of 

Love, Life and Truth. 

Love is complete harmony. Life is all energy, 
and Truth is the intelligent combination and ap- 
plication of the trinity; thus forming the divine 
law of creation. 

The creation of the first two days consisted 
in establishing a condition of law and intelligent 
harmony, from the thoughts or waters above 
the firmament called heaven. 

But the five verses just read, comprising the 
creation of the third day, refer to a chaos of 
thoughts, or waters under the heaven (firma- 
ment). Having treated the thoughts above as 
intelligent, spiritual light; those below will be 
treated as ignorant, material darkness; or, in 
the sense that thoughts of things below are of 
a material character to be moulded and fashioned 
by an intelligent God of Love. From this on, 
all is governed by an unchangeable law. Con- 
sequently, there cannot, in God's province, be 



26 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

any miracles, for the simple reason that defi- 
nition of the word miracle, as defined by Webster, 
is an act performed in defiance of law. God 
does not create by chance, or through any hap- 
hazard methods ; his law cannot be violated with- 
out penalty. However, through it all things 
are possible, and hence, through ignorance, many 
acts performed through intelligent light are often 
looked upon as miracles. 

So here we find an all-wise, intelligent God, 
after a lapse of time (the first and second days 
having passed), devoting his attention to the 
realms of ignorance and darkness, or thoughts 
void of any spiritual significance. This is doubt- 
less where humanity obtained the idea that every- 
thing above is spiritual and all below material. 
People differ; so do authors; but many of the 
intelligent thinkers of today have an advanced 
view as to the understanding of these verses. 
But well I know that the spirit of truth must 
plainly appear in order to overcome the errone- 
ous education of youth. 

In due course of time God said to the material 
thoughts which were below, be gathered into 
one place, and separate again, the more intelli- 
gent shall be called earth, and the remainder 
shall be called seas. From out of this confused 



CREATION. 27 

mass a plan of procedure is manifesting; the dry 
land, the more substantial part under the divine 
system of evolution, begins to appear above the 
surface of the seas, and God called this earth be- 
cause it was lacking in divine intelligence, and 
was, therefore, material; the remaining part of 
this confused mass was gathered together and, 
being in an unharmonious condition, was called 
seas, and was also of a material nature. 

Thus there is now a beginning of a material 
universe, in full working harmony with the divine 
law of creation and evolution. Under the law 
the work of creation is seldom performed in a 
moment, or a day, as we compute time. Not 
that God could not do it, but all evidence tends 
to show that he did not create material things 
in that manner. Age after age has already been 
required to bring the earth to its present condi- 
tion, and yet the work is incomplete, but is still 
in full progress, the same today as in the begin- 
ning, but on a scale of greater magnitude. In 
the original creation God, the spirit of divine 
thought, only started it ; the law of evolution does 
the rest. 

So, in due course of time, a tropical region 
appears upon a part of the earth and it brought 
forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit 



28 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

tree yielding fruit, each after his kind, much like 
the process of tropical regions of today. 

This is the record of the third day, or period, 
as the reader may choose to call it, for according 
to scriptural history a day with God is as a 
thousand years. Consequently, all recording of 
time in accordance to present methods, should 
not be considered here as applied to this allegory. 
To do so would only lead the reader astray. 
Therefore, the sooner this idea is abandoned, the 
better ; and the sooner the workings of the divine 
mind will become apparent. 

FOURTH DAY OR PERIOD. 

The Stellar World, 
Genesis I. 

14. And God said, "Let there be light in the 
firmament of the heaven to divide the day 
from the night; and let them be for signs, 
and for seasons, and days and years. 

15. "And let them be for hghts in the firmament 
of the heaven to give light upon the earth," 
and it was so. 

16. And God made two greater lights; the 
greater light to rule the day and the lesser 
light to rule the night. He made the stars, 
also. 



CREATION. 29 

17. And God set them in the firmament of the 
heaven to give Hght upon the earth, 

18. And to rule over the day and over the night, 
and to divide the hght from darkness; and 
God said it was good. 

19. And the evening and the morning was the 
the fourth day. 

Before attempting to analyze the last six 
verses let the mind of the reader go back to the 
first verse: "In the beginning God created the 
heaven and the earth." But bear in mind a firm- 
ament has been placed between the two; the 
heaven is above and the earth below. That which 
is above has already been interpreted as a record 
of the spiritual universe. 

The method, as employed here by the Creator, 
is similar to that of the first creation which, as 
previously shown, was spiritual. On the first 
day a heaven was created, and on the second a 
spiritual light. So then, on the third day, earth 
was created, and now, on the fourth day, light 
again becomes the most important feature. 

The earth being of a material nature with a 
divine law already established over It, the light 
now demanded must be of a material character. 

So, in the fourth epoch of the earth's creation, 
God, in his infinite wisdom, spake through his 



30 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

never changing system of divine law of creation 
and evolution. The sun, moon and stars begin 
to show evidence of birth in the firmament of 
the heaven, with a line of duty marked out for 
them to perform. They were to shed light upon 
the earth both day and night, and divide the 
light from the darkness, and be for signs, for 
season, and for days and years. From this grand 
and wonderful system of the stellar world all 
nature may compute and reckon time. By aid 
of evidence produced by scientific research a con- 
stant creation and evolution has continued ever 
since the first beam of light cast from out of the 
stellar world. 

So again, let the reader bear in mind that God's 
wonderful creations are not made in a moment, 
or rendered in the form of a miracle, but by a 
law, and through a wise system of evolution 
continued for ever. Thus the fourth period of 
creation. 

FIFTH DAY OR PERIOD. 

Animal Creation. 

Genesis I. 

20. And God said, 'Tet the waters bring forth 
abundantly the moving creatures that hath 



CREATION. 31 

life, and fowl that may fly above the earth, 
in the open firmament of heaven." 

21. And God created great whales, and every 
living thing that moveth, which the waters 
brought forth abundantly after their kind; 
and God saw that it was good. 

22. And God blessed them, saying, ''Be fruitful 
and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, 
and let fowl multiply in the earth." 

24. And God said, ''Let the earth bring forth 
the living creatures after his kind, cattle and 
every creeping thing, and beast of the earth 
after his kind;" and it was so. 

25. And God made the beasts of the earth after 
his kind, and cattle after his kind, and every- 
thing that creepeth upon the earth after his 
kind; and God saw that it was good. 

23. And the evening and the morning was the 
fifth day. 

In the last six verses just read, comprising 
the creation of the fifth day, the first beginning 
of animal life appears, as the earth and the seas 
are of a material nature, the life developed in the 
ordinary way would, necessarily, be of the same 
character; and, like the first appearance of the 
grass, herb and trees, this life originated in the 
tropical regions. Each species began existence in 



32 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

a most scientific order. They were not, as many 
people who have, through a false education, been 
led to believe, full-grown and up-to-date, as we 
see them now, but rather the seed, egg or germ 
that first came to light; and from this all nature 
in due time developed, just the same as it does 
today. The climate in which they live, the food 
on which life subsists, and various other environ- 
ments have much, if not all, to do with the kind 
of life developed. 

Unlike the spiritual heaven, the material earth 
is a condition of inharmony; no material life can 
reach perfection. Although scientific researches 
may not exactly agree, I will undertake to say 
that it was here on the fifth day, or period, that 
the normal material, man, first appeared. Late 
research, both in Java and the Island of 
Borneo (originally a part of Africa, or India), 
for the supposed missing link between man and 
a lower creature of the ape species, produces the 
evidence long desired by scientists. But while 
on this point, the scientific world may not all 
agree, I feel convinced from evidence obtained 
that it was at this age that man, in his original 
animal nature, first appeared. 

It is a well-known fact that man has his species 
or kind from which he originally developed. Go 



CREATION. 33 

back to the tropics of today; how do we find 
mankind represented there? Doubtless very 
much the same as he was in earher ages, and very 
probably the lowest type of the present natives 
was that first recognized as the material man, 
being born with all the attributes of the highest 
type of animal life. 

In this man is found all the evidence of a 
brain under control of the physical senses, very 
much like those found in some of the tropical 
countries of today; because all along the line, 
go where you will, we find that nature is still 
repeating itself. Under similar conditions it is 
the same today as in the beginning, the law never 
changes. 

Then, what are the chief attributes of this 
higher type of animal hfe? Mr. T. J. Hudson, 
author of the Law of Psychic Phenomena, one 
of the greatest scientific works that I have ever 
had the pleasure to read, gives the attributes of 
the brain-mind as follows: "A perfect physical 
body with a brain which, for convenience, he 
designated as the objective mind of man, it takes 
cognizance of the objective world. Its media of 
observation are the five physical senses. It is the 
outgrowth of man's physical necessities, a guide 
in his struggle with his material environments. 



34 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

carnal in nature, with power of speech. Its high- 
est function is that of reasoning." And thus it 
directs his material actions in the most approved 
manner. 

It is thus we find the original material man 
at the close of the fifth day, or period, of crea- 
tion. 

SIXTH DAY OR PERIOD. 

The Dual Life, Spiritual and Material Combined, 

By virtue of the divine law of creation and 
evolution, another epoch, it is the sixth and last 
of the original creation, as recorded in the first 
chapter of Genesis. Let the reader look at this 
from a spiritual standpoint only, for it is here 
that one of God's chief mysteries of creation is 
developing. 

Genesis I. 

26. And God said, ''Let us make man in our 
image, after our likeness; and let him have 
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over 
the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, 
and over all the earth, and over every creep- 
ing thing that creepeth on the earth." 

27. So God created man in His own image; in 
the image of God, created He him ; male and 
female, created He them. 



CREATION. 35 

28. And God blessed them. And God said 
unto them, ''Be fruitful and multiply, and 
replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have 
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over 
the fowl of the air, and every living thing 
that moveth upon the earth." 

29. And God said, "Behold, I have given you 
every herb bearing seed, which is on the face 
of the earth, and every tree, in which is the 
fruit of a tree, yielding seed ; to you it shall 
be for meat; 

30. "And to every beast of the earth, and to 
every fowl of the earth, and to everything 
that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is 
life, I have given every green herb for 
meat;" and it was so. 

31. And God saw everything that he had made, 
and behold it was very good; and the even- 
ing and the morning was the sixth day. 

What a stupendous thought. The crowning 
event of God's original creation. For ages the 
earth, with its material life, had been developing 
into a very Eden of grandeur. But the man, 
where is he at the beginning of this epoch? 
Look at his picture as the author sees him. Far 
inland, along the banks of the great rivers which 
traverse the fertile valleys of Africa's sunny 



36 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

plains, where the sun rules throughout the year, 
with rays in summer too torrid for any human 
but a black man, may be found living pictures of 
the normal material man. 

PARADISE. 

A God, of divine love and intelligence, from 
his exalted realms of bliss above, looks down at 
this epoch upon this material earth, which is be- 
low the firmament, and beholds man, the greatest 
mechanism of all creation, struggling under his 
material environments, to develop order out of 
inharmony. He has the material knowledge, but 
not the divine intelligence to maintain it, and 
the necessity for greater power become impera- 
tive. So the spirit of divine love speaks again, 
and it is thus that one of the most important 
mysteries of the ages is unraveled. 

The infant being of man is now endowed with 
an intelligent, divine mind, in the image and like- 
ness of his creator. Thus he is now born with a 
dual mind, which I, for convenience, will call 
material and spiritual, as this seems more appro- 
priate and comprehensive than the name of con- 
scious and subconscious; or objective and sub- 
jective, as defined in the works of some 
very learned authors. Man, by virtue of 



PARADISE. 37 

this act will, in due time, develop into 
maturity, endowed with all the attributes of 
divine love, infinite intelligence and creative 
power. 

T. J. Hudson's Law of Psychic Phenomena 
gives this spiritual (subjective) mind the follow- 
ing attributes: ''It is the soul; it takes cogni- 
zance of its environments by means independent 
of the physical senses. It perceives by intuition 
and knows right from wrong. It is the seat of 
emotions and storehouse of memory. It per- 
forms its hightest functions when the material 
(objective) senses are in abeyance. It is that 
intelligence which makes itself manifest in hyp- 
notic subject, when in a state of somnambulism. 
It sees without the use of the natural organs 
of vision. It reads the thoughts of others, even 
to the minutest details. It possesses clairvoyant 
power, and the ability to apprehend the thoughts 
of others. The material (objective) mind is 
merely the functions of the physical brain, while 
the spiritual (subjective) mind is a distinct 
entity, capable of an existence independent of the 
body." 

But notwithstanding this great power, Mr. 
Hudson further claim.s ''that it is by mental or 
oral suggestion controlled by the objective (ma- 



38 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

terial) mind, and by virtue of this power man 
becomes a free moral agent." The spiritual 
mind being the soul, is "capable of distinguishing 
the true from the false, with an intuition to pro- 
tect life and humanity, and the preservation of 
posterity." Let the reader bear in mind the dis- 
tinction between the two as we proceed. 

A kingdom has been prepared, and God, 
through this act of love, places a scepter in the 
hand of man, and blesses him, and tells him to 
be fruitful, multiply, replenish, rule and subdue 
it. Male and female, created he them, saying, "of 
everything upon the earth that hath life, I have 
given you for meat. I have endowed you with 
all the attributes of the Son, and because of this 
intelligence, if obedient to my command which 
I now give, all power is given you." 

DIVINE COMMAND AND PENALTY. 

Matthew XXIII. 

yj. Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all 
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with 
all thy mind. 

38. This is the first and great commandment. 

39. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt 

love thy neighbor as thyself. 



PARADISE. 39 

40. On these two commandments hang all the 
law and the prophets. 

THE PENALTY. 

Matthew XII. 

31. Wherefore, I say unto you, all manner of 
sm and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto 
men; but the blasphemy against the Holy 
Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. 

The verses just read are the spoken words of 
Jesus, as recorded by Matthew, and, according 
to his teachings, it was the law from the begin- 
ning. To my mind, no truer words were ever 
uttered. To obey, the soul lives forever. To 
disobey, it is death eternal. Let these words of 
Jesus be engraved in the mind of man, for it is 
the law divine. The law as laid down by Moses, 
for the guidance of the children of Israel pales 
into insignificance when compared to this, so 
long as the spiritual mind is permitted to exer- 
cise its normal function, this law will be obeyed. 

The fundamental principle of spiritual life is 
here defined. Spiritual death is the ultimate re- 
sult of spiritual unbelief. Regarding the sin 
against the Holy Ghost it has never before, to 
my knowledge, been clearly defined by scientific 



40 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

research, but it is said by Jesus that it cannot be 
forgiven. 

Hudson's Law of Psychic Phenomena says: 
"It must be a violation of the spiritual law, for 
the moral law, if the scriptures are to be believed, 
can all be atoned for. Therefore, it must be a 
sin of unbelief or denial of the soul's existence," 
and a oneness with God, thus neutralizing any 
desire for immortal life. Therefore, it will be 
observed that it is not a vindictive punishment, 
but simply the law of spiritual life. An appropri- 
ate penalty follows in the wake of every violation 
of both spiritual and moral laws. 

But let the reader remember that in order to 
make man a free moral agent the spiritual mind 
necessarily becomes hedged about with some lim- 
itations. God, in his infinite wisdom, gave to 
the material mind of man the powers of reason 
by all methods, for the purpose of enabling him 
successfully to struggle with his physical envi- 
ronments. He gave him the power to know right 
from wrong, and thus made him responsible 
for the moral status of the soul. So long as the 
soul inhabits the body it is charged with limited 
responsibilities. It is the life principle, its nor- 
mal functions pertaining solely to the preserva- 



PARADISE. 41 

tion of human life and the perpetuation of the 
human race. 

Thus it is that the material mind of man has 
control, and rules either for weal or woe. It is 
not for man to question the wisdom of God in 
ordaining these relations so as to subordinate the 
eternal to the perishable, but it is his duty to 
ascertain those relations, and so order his con- 
duct as to do his whole duty to himself and his 
creator. 

It is thus we find the normally endowed man 
of the sixth day, male and female, as little chil- 
dren, in a condition of Paradise, surrounded by 
material environments, a veritable garden of 
Eden, coming into a state of conscious realization 
of their oneness with infinite life. It is the awak- 
ening in Paradise; they recognize their true 
identity and assume the attitude of bringing their 
lives into harmony with the same great law 
forces; and in the degree that man opens himself 
to the divine inflow of these higher forces, does 
he realize and come into this oneness with God. 

Jesus said, "Suffer little children, and forbid 
them not, to come unto me, for of such is the 
kingdom of heaven." Luke XVIII : i6. 

It is in a Paradise of Eden that we now be- 
hold the coming man. He stands on this en- 



42 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

chanted spot of transcendent beauty with the eye 
of all nature turned upon him. He looks out 
over his kingdom and beholds the hand of infinite 
love in everything. The very air is filled with 
fragrant thoughts of harmony and good will 
for the welfare of every living creature. 

At this period he realizes that he is upon the 
threshold of a great work marked out by his 
Creator. 

Be fruitful, multiply, replenish and subdue, is 
the divine command. But what is the first thing 
to do ? I shall answer by reading from the great- 
est sermon ever delivered to man — the discourse 
of Jesus on the mount — as recorded by Matthew, 
in which Jesus says : ''But seek ye first the King- 
dom of God, and his righteousness, and all things 
shall be added unto you." 

To come unto this realization of oneness with 
infinite life and power, and open yourself that it 
may work through you, man will soon find that 
he has entered a new phase of life, and that an 
ever increasing power will be his, and soon he 
will be able to master all the problems of life. 

But even here in this garden of Eden, where 
man grows into maturity by virtue of the power 
invested in him; we soon find the optimist and 



PARADISE. 43 

the pessimist, and it is with them that an ac- 
quaintance is now to be cultivated. 

To bring the reader to a better understand- 
ing as to what I mean, I will quote a few para- 
graphs written by the editor of Success Maga- 
zine: *'The most successful men are the most 
optimistic when misfortune assails them; they 
keep their business in any ray of sunlight they 
can find. If they cannot find one they imagine 
one. 

"Pessimism leads to failure. It is no part of 
success. Learn to talk up, not down. Avoid 
people who are always saying that everything has 
gone to the dogs. Men who talk hard times are 
never successful; times are always hard for the 
grumbler and those in the pessimistic rut. 

"Success is a delicate plant and requires en- 
couragement and sunshine. It will not thrive in 
an atmosphere of melancholy. The world likes 
sunny, hopeful, buoyant characters. It shuns 
lugubrious prophets who see only failure and 
disaster everywhere. The hopeful, cheerful men 
and women, who see success and longevity in 
their careers are always in demand, always pop- 
ular. 

"Emerson's smile was unforgetable. It was 
a perpetual benediction to all who saw him." To 



44 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

make knowledge valuable you must have the 
cheerfulness of wisdom. Blessed are the happi- 
ness-makers; they carry volumes of manhood, 
their presence is sunshine; they mak-e right liv- 
ing easy. The sunny soul does not need letters 
of recommendation or introduction; all doors 
fly open to him. He is welcome everywhere. 
The sunny temper is a talisman more powerful 
than wealth, more precious than rubies. It is an 
aroma whose fragrance fills the air with that of 
Paradise. 

"I am so full of happiness," said a child, ''that 
I could not be happier unless I grew." She bade 
bood-morning to her sweet singing birds, and 
good-morning to the sun ; then she asks her moth- 
er's permission, and softly and reverently bade 
good-morning to God, and why not? 

This Paradise of which I speak is a condition 
of happiness in an Eden upon earth. It was 
man's first home, and I have called your atten- 
tion to the allusions above, merely to show how 
easy it is for man to drift away from the one- 
ness with God. There is no place for the pessi- 
mist in Paradise, and hence we must cut his ac- 
quaintance here, to speak of him, perhaps, more 
at length in another chapter. 

It is the optimist who, in heart and mind. 



PARADISE. 45 

maintains the attitude of reverence and worship 
for the heavenly Father, loves his neighbor and 
sees the good in all of God's creations. 

Emerson says, ''He writes it in his heart, 
that every day is the best day in the year. He 
hangs no dismal pictures on his wall, nor deals 
with sable and gloom in his conversation. He 
finds sunshine and cheer everywhere. His com- 
ing into the home seems like the coming of the 
sun after a long", dark, arctic night. Such peo- 
ple are health promoters, and death to melan- 
choly. It is thus he develops a capacity to enjoy 
intelligent divine life, and finds the sunny side 
of every experience." 

Standing within the gates of Paradise, clothed 
in such radiant divine light, let us in thought 
take a glance backward. 

At the dawn of the twentieth century, human- 
ity, with uplifted hands and open eyes, stands 
aghast at the thought of what God, in man, has 
already wrought. In the development of the 
older nations, centuries have been required to 
promote the present condition. But what of the 
marvelous changes of the last century? -Amer- 
ican history has become the wonder of the world ; 
the progress of the race is nowhere equalled. 
Man, in drifting from old to newer fields, has 



46 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

in some way encountered a new light. Forced 
by his new environments to individuaHze him- 
self, he has been driven from old methods to 
newer and better ones. Thus the gradual dawn- 
ing of a superior intelligence through his coming 
to America. 

This great continent, a little over a century 
ago, was virtually an uninhabited wilderness, 
with almost a year's journey overland from 
coast to coast. The great west was comparatively 
unknown. There were no wires to bear the 
whispers, or newspapers to record the events of 
the dazzling sunset West. No steamboats ply- 
ing on its lakes and rivers. No steel rails trav- 
ersing its staked plains and its great Rocky 
Mountains, which had long been the home of 
the buffalo and wild man. Not even a town 
west of the Rockies, and the borders of the 
Atlantic but thinly settled. Only an infant 
among nations, with other flags floating over 
territory where the stars and stripes now wave. 
With the forefathers it was a struggle of life and 
death, but man's necessity is the mother of intel- 
ligent thought. A light began to beam forth in 
the mind of the sturdy puritan, and in its dawn- 
ing, man found himself upon the threshold of 
a new world. He assumed the power given to 



PARADISE. 47 

him by his Creator as a birthright, that attitude 
of dominion, not alone over himself but over 
the new world. 

With a determination to conquer and subdue, 
he enters the wilderness, not half-hearted but 
with a sturdy, positive attitude to do and to win. 
He had no doubt of his ability, because his af- 
firmation to win was so strong, and the greater 
the trials and dangers that beset his pathway, 
the more positive his convictions became, for 
he knew there was a way. People with such 
attributes of mind, even today, are frequently 
classed as cranks. 

But where would the world be today, had it 
not been for this class of citizens ? " Suppose 
Fulton had given up under ridicule of his 
friends. Suppose Cyrus W. Field had laid down 
when cable after cable had parted in mid ocean, 
and his relatives howling at his back that he 
was wasting his fortune, and would die in pov- 
erty? What if Prof. Bell had lost all faith in 
himself when he had expended his last dollar in 
experimenting on the principles of the tele- 
phone ? " and the world called him a crank. 
Where would the American nation be today, 
had Washington, Lincoln and Grant laid down 
in the midst of the greatest struggle for inde- 



48 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

pendence and life that the world has ever wit- 
nessed? They were each at times called cranks. 

" God does not mock man with such convic- 
tions without granting the ability to do the deed. 
He does not mock the birds with an instinct 
to seek the South in winter, without the climate 
to suit." 

''It is man's constant affirmation of ability to 
win that carries him past misfortune, strengthens 
his power to achieve, and makes him a leader 
among men." The man who adopts the attri- 
butes endowed by his Creator, knows that it is 
a vigorous confidence in himself, a robust self- 
reliance that achieves success. " He drives away 
all fear as he would a thief from the house, and 
affirms his ability to do without the shadow of a 
doubt in the mind. He arranges his surround- 
ings so that everything about indicates success, 
his manner, his dress, his bearing, his conver- 
sation, and everything he does speaks achieve- 
ment and success." 

Marvelous as the past may seem, the history 
of the next hundred years will far surpass it and 
be supreme in the history of the race. 

Again we witness a constant revolution of 
the divine law; from beginning to end of this 
wonderful record of creation, as recorded in the 



PARADISE. 49 

first chapter of Genesis, we see the mighty hand 
of omnipotent power, always displayed with love 
and intelligence in the behalf of humanity. 

The worshiper is no longer filled with awe, 
but he approaches nearer to the divine presence, 
and becomes one with the spirit of just men made 
perfect. At the close of the sixth day, God 
looks upon the work and says it is very good. 

SEVENTH DAY OR PERIOD. 
Genesis II. 

1. Thus the heavens and the earth were fin- 
ished, and all the host of them. 

2. And on the seventh day God ended his work 
which he had made; and he rested on the 
seventh day from all his work which he 
had made. 

3. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanc- 
tified it, because that in it he had rested from 
all his work which God created and made. 

What a sublime moment. God proclaims the 
work of creation to be finished, and a day of rest 
is at hand. This, evidently, was the original 
creation. Only, that was referred to as being 
finished the beginning from which, by virtue of 
the law of evolution, all nature must develop and 
grow. 



50 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

A most powerful working system was now 
established and in full progress, man, having 
been endowed in the image of his Creator, has, 
through God's divine wisdom, been granted 
dominion over all. But, as man was the last 
creation, he was doubtless still in infancy, and 
having been endowed a free moral agent, or 
with a spiritual power, subject to the sugges- 
tion by the material mind of man, a period of 
waiting becomes necessary. So on the seventh 
day, because his work was complete and good, 
God rested and he blessed the seventh day, and 
declared it sacred and holy, as a day of rest for all 
creation. 

Thus to the education of man much of the 
future depends. What will the government of 
his dominion be, spiritual or material ? The 
laws are the same today as they were in the be- 
ginning. Reader, your child is in Paradise today, 
but where will it be on the morrow? Are the 
parents doing their duty under the law? What 
kind of home training and education are you 
giving it ? The heavenly Father, the Spirit of 
Divine Love and Truth who placed the scepter 
of dominion in your hands, may be waiting for 
the reverence that is due him. Remember that 
a violation of the moral laws, injures and kills the 



PARADISE. 51 

body and may be atoned for; but a persistent 
violation of God's chief command, not only de- 
stroys the body, but the soul. Do not think you 
will be held blameless for the home training of 
the child. 

Jesus of Nazereth, the Son, as he walked in 
flesh upon the earth, nineteen hundred years 
ago, taught these laws, and as you sow, so shall 
you reap. Each of us at the beginning of life 
was in Paradise, but where are we today? 
Each of us makes our own world, and has power 
to remain in Paradise as long as we will. The 
law is before you, and all power is yours if you 
so desire. It is maintained only through the 
spirit of divine love and truth, what else could 
you ask ? To live within this law we are in 
oneness with God, and this is Paradise. Every 
child, by virtue of its birthright, first entered 
this realm of bliss, and God, through the law 
of infinite love and wisdom, bids it remain, and 
why does it not do so? The answer is most 
frequently the same in every instance. It is the 
fault of erroneous home training while in youth, 
for Jesus hath said, if you bring your child up 
in the way it should do, it would not depart from 
it. How important then that the parent know 
the divine law, and walk in harmony with it 



52 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

while here upon earth, so as to be better able to 
enjoy its fulness by living in one-ness with infin- 
ite life and power. In reality, there is only one 
religion, for the chief fundamental principles 
of all are the same. They differ only in degrees 
of unfoldment. Let the endowed man be true 
to the vital principles of the law. Love self less 
and humanity more, for it is thus the mind 
soon becomes filled with the attributes here men- 
tioned, carrying him to a realization that he 
walks with the spirit of God in Paradise. 



PART SECOND. 



Paradise Lost. 



Paradise Lost. The Life of Mankind. As Dis- 
played by the Allegory of Adam and Eve. 

According to recent discoveries by scientific 
research, the world in which man Hves has, under 
the present methods of computing time, existed 
for more than fifty thousand years, and there are 
many indications that this period of time may 
soon be doubled; and there seems to be much 
good evidence produced by science that the specie, 
or kind of life, from which mankind has devel- 
oped, had a beginning in very early ages. But 
the law of evolution, which at first was slow in 
progress, is today assuming a most rapid gait. 

Man In ignorance, could not foresee his won- 
derful power for transmission of thought, nor the 
process of education and intellectual improve- 
ment through which the human race was to 
pass. Endowed with an intelligent, divine mind, 

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54 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

he is seen at the dawn of the twentieth century 
by virtue of a vast array of developments sur- 
rounded with wonder and admiration, cHmbing 
higher and higher, with his hand upon the lever 
of the universe to control its hidden forces as he 
will. Marvelous as the history of the last decade 
may seem, man does not yet realize that his real 
self is one with the life of God. 

The man who knows himself merely as a man, 
he will live accordingly and have only the power 
of man, like Adam whose life is depicted in the 
allegory to which the reader's attention will soon 
be directed. 

After nineteen hundred years of scientific re- 
search, by many of the most learned Scriptural 
students of the world, a wave of advanced scien- 
tific thought is today sweeping through God's 
Universe as it never did before. 

Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune with the Infinite, 
says : " The things that we open ourselves to 
always come to us. In the degree that we are 
filled with this spirit of peace by thus opening 
ourselves to its inflow does it pour through us, 
SO' that we carry it with us constantly, and be- 
comes such embodiments of peace that wherever 
we go we are continually shedding benedictions, 
and giving out blessings and comfort by chang- 



PARADISE LOST. 55 

ing sorrow into joy, fear into courage, despair 
into hope, weakness into power. It is the one 
who has come into the reahzation of his own true 
self who carries this power with him and who 
radiates it wherever he goes." 

There is much evidence that the words quoted 
above are true. The author of this book having 
come into this relation of his own true self, feels 
the power therein expressed, but he finds there 
are other methods much more effective than a 
personal presence to give comfort and cheer to 
an error thought suffering humanity. 

The object of this book is to change sorrow 
into joy, fear into courage, despair into hope, 
weakness into power. 

In the preceding chapter, I have endeavored 
to give a true scientific interpretation of the Al- 
legory of God's creation of the universe and man, 
as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis, show- 
ing that man, when in a normal condition, is in 
a state of Paradise. 

In this chapter, a part of a second Allegory 
or that which is found recorded in the second and 
third chapters of Genesis, omitting the first three 
verses, will be interpreted as showing the usual 
life of mankind^ leaving man out and away from 
Paradise, 



56 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

The gift of God, says the apostle, is '* eternal 
life, and the wages of sin is death everlasting." 
(Rom. vi:23.) And if we believe the teach- 
ings of the Master, " He that believeth in me 
shall live again, but the soul that sinneth shall 
surely die." 

Age after age, century after century have 
come and gone, yet to the mind of the Christian 
world these prophetic words are almost as mys- 
terious as they were in the beginning of the era. 
Eternal torment has been the cry of Christian 
orthodoxy for all classes of sin. According to 
reports, it was pronounced against all who of- 
fered resistance to the authority of the Church of 
Rome, and a season in purgatory promised for 
all who desired a system of cleansing in unknown 
realms^ and the various other creeds and de- 
nominations have for nineteen hundred years 
been just as equally pronounced in some other 
dogmas as this one. 

So far as the Church of Rome is concerned, I 
presume they in early ages made some mistakes; 
so have all the church societies, and it would 
be a very singular coincidence if they had not. 
From my own observation, I feel that not only 
the Church of Rome, whose following is so de- 
vout, but all the church societies of this great 



PARADISE LOST. 57 

world, have done the very best for their brother- 
hood that the intelligence of mankind of the day 
would warrant. They have all labored under 
very trying environments, as Jesus indicated to 
his Apostles as he sent them forth to preach the 
Gospel. " Think not that I have come to send 
peace on earth. I am come not to send peace but 
a sword." (Math. x:34.) By virtue of in- 
formation derived from various works of re- 
search, many methods, through ignorance, have 
from time to time been adopted that could not 
stand the glare of intelligent light ; such methods 
were unknown to the Prophets and Patriarchs 
of the Jewish age, neither were they endorsed 
by Jesus and his Apostles. 

This eternal cry of everlasting torment by fire 
and brimstone has no home in the divine intelli- 
gent mind of today, but it does still find a foot- 
hold in the minds of the more ignorant and super- 
stitious classes who are filled with religious pre- 
judice in consequence of their past education. 

If such would only open themselves to an in- 
flow of a higher light, and come into a realiza- 
tion of their oneness with infinite life, as dis- 
played in the preceding chapter, they would soon 
be in harmony with the higher laws. 

All ills, the suffering, the fears, the forebod- 



58 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

ings and uncertainties of life, come because of 
living out of harmony of divine law. All laws 
given to man, as shown by the Scriptures, both 
spiritual and material, cannot be violated without 
an appropriate penalty; to live out of harmony 
of the divine law, the penalty is eternal death; 
to violate the material or moral laws, as laid 
down by Moses for the guidance of the children 
of Israel, the penalty is principally effective 
against the material body. In the Ten Com- 
mandments given by Moses, the divine law was 
also included; but as the orthodox churches 
have not heretofore as a rule been very clear in 
distinguishing the difference between the spirit- 
ual and material body, and defining the unfor- 
given sin against the Holy Ghost, and as this is 
one of the important elements of this book, it 
will again be repeated in this chapter, although 
the Master when upon earth was not, according 
to records, very clear upon the subject, I feel that 
under the intelligent light of today, I can now 
safely define the true spiritual law and the 
penalty. 

God's Chief Command. 
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all 
thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy 
mind. 



PARADISE LOST. 59 

This is the first and great commandment. 

And the second is hke unto it, thou shalt love 
thy neighbor as thyself. 

On these two commandments hang all the law 
and the prophets." (Math, xxiii : 2^'], 38, 39, 40.) 

The Penalty, 

" Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin 
and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men, but 
the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not 
be forgiven unto men." (Math, xii : 31st.) 

To my mind this is the divine law and penalty 
as defined by Jesus more than nineteen hundred 
years ago, which comes as a result of the en- 
dowed dual mind of man. 

While the author makes no special pretence 
as a scientist he has exercised his divine right 
to seek for the truth ; this he has done by reading 
and becoming familiar with the works of greater 
minds, and yet the hypothesis formed for this 
book may not be entirely in harmony with any 
other recorded works, but in listening for the 
echo of that memorable promise made by Jesus 
more than nineteen hundred years ago, '' That 
he would send a comforter, even the Spirit of 
Truth, which would abide forever," I feel that I 
am inspired to say that this wave of scientific 



60 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

research, which is now so rapidly speeding 
through the universe, is the promised comforter, 
which is to abide forever. It may not be com- 
plete, but the law of evolution will do the rest. 
It is thus that the varied advances of the intelli- 
gent mind is accounted for. 

The demonstrations of the scientific world have 
a tendency to place man more in harmony with 
the divine law by giving him a better understand- 
ing of the Scriptures and the teachings of the 
Master when upon earth. 

The Bible as a record and the New Testament 
as divine law are now believed by advanced scien- 
tific thought to be quite accurate and correct. It 
is only an error, understanding by the world as 
to many important details that have been at 
fault. The mission of Jesus on earth was to 
correct many errors then in vogue; but he did 
not claim to have finished. For he told 
his Disciples that the world was not ready and 
even they could not bear any more at that time, 
but the Spirit of Truth would come from the 
Father later on. He knew that his work on 
earth would be recorded, and in after years form 
a subject of investigation for the benefit of future 
generations. 

The doctrine he promulgated was one filled 



PARADISE LOST. 61 

with love and harmony for all mankind, as dis- 
played by the law of creation in the preceding 
chapter. To the man who lived in oneness with 
the divine intelligent precept, there was for him 
life eternal, but to him who persistently refused 
to believe in the spiritual endowment of the soul 
and live in harmony with the divine law, the 
natural penalty was death everlasting. This 
could not be an act of revenge, neither was it a 
vindictive punishment, but simply the result of 
a divine law, which tells man through his intui- 
tion that if he does not believe in the soul and 
live in harmony with its demands, he would 
naturally have no desire for its future benefits. 
Such to my mind comprises God's Spiritual Law ; 
the sin against the Holy Ghost that which can- 
not be forgiven. And it was by virtue of this 
erroneous thought or belief, which began to de- 
velop in the mind of the child or man while yet 
in a condition of Paradise, that was forcing 
him from the garden of Eden, as portrayed in 
the verses below. It is therefore not only neces- 
sary to believe in the soul, but to live in har- 
mony with its dictates, which is for man to love 
his Creator with all his heart and mind and his 
neighbors as himself. Such is the law and if we 
believe the Scriptures, Jesus' mission on earth 



62 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

was to proclaim this fact and define the way of 
man's redemption. He did this by promul^ting 
the doctrine of faith, and thus became the Savior 
of mankind. Man for ages has been drifting in 
thought. 

While yet a child in Paradise, the alluring 
charms of the great world without are depicted 
before its gaze; a worldly ambition takes root 
in the mind, the tempter appears in thought, a 
desire comes for worldly attainments. Instead 
of curbing the demands of the little one, the 
parent too often gratifies its every whim, and 
the more that is given the less appreciative it 
becomes. Thus one of the first laws of the 
divine command, which is to be thankful by 
worshiping the good, is beginning to be 
neglected, not only in the child but in the parent, 
who also displays a selfish regard for the off- 
spring. 

In the degree that selfish attributes are assumed 
and maintained within the human mind, do we 
fail to honor and worship the Heavenly Father. 
But let the parent exercise a proper check by 
curbing these desires to the extent of one-half or 
two-thirds, and they will find the child is much 
more grateful and happy thereby. To grant a 
child or even one of more mature years, all of 



PARADISE LOST. 63 

the desires of the material mind, they will soon 
assume that attitude of mind that they are greater 
than the power that produced them, and lose all 
sense of that spiritual endowed mind given by 
their Creator. 

From evidences produced by all the various 
methods, this was about the condition of the 
man called Adam just previous to his banishment 
from Eden. 

The majority of the Christian world, and I 
have reason to believe that even those who pose 
as expert Bible students, have been in the habit 
of construing these two allegory creations, as 
recorded in the three first chapters of Genesis, 
as but one, while in fact there are two. And 
not only this, they try to place a literal interpre- 
tation on their meaning ; this, as I have mentioned 
in a previous chapter, cannot be done, being only 
an allegory, as all divine intelligence must ad- 
mit. Man should read with the understanding 
that it is only a picture or a figurative expression 
of the facts. The book of Job and the book of 
Revelations of St. John the Divine, while they 
are beautiful pictures of the truth, yet no intel- 
ligent mind will attem^pt to obtain an under- 
standing from their literal sense. This idea pre- 
vails today in the minds of the masses, and has 



64 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

always been the cause of a grave misunderstand- 
ing to the divine interpretation of the Scriptures. 
One of the chief objects of this book is to correct 
this error and display to the mind of man an 
interpretation embracing the spirit of truth : to 
do this, it becomes necessary to believe in the 
fact that there are two separate and distinct 
allegories in these chapters, the first being an 
allegory of God's creation, and, with the proper 
interpretation, both are true. To read with such 
an understanding a vast difference will soon be 
observed, and it will be a great surprise to many 
that intelligent thought has kept the mind of the 
masses in ignorance so long. 

The erroneous and vulgar interpretations that 
have so long been placed upon these two alle- 
gories are not only too silly and ignorant for an 
intelligent mind, but are very misleading, and a 
proper understanding of the New Testament 
cannot be obtained. 

To place a literal construction upon it would be 
a serious error. Some very learned writers have 
given them a spiritual interpretation, forming a 
very beautiful story, but to my mind the spirit 
of truth in them was not sufficiently portrayed; 
for this cause I have made much effort to obtain 



ADAM AND EVE. 65 

the truth. My interpretation b}^ paragraphs will 
now follow: 

THE STORY OF ADAM AND EVE. 
(Genesis II: 4th to 7th Verses.) 

4. " These are the generations of the heavens 
and of the earth when they were created in 
the day the Lord God made the earth and 
the heavens. 

5. And every plant of the field before it was in 
the earth, and every herb of the field before 
it grew; for the Lord God had not caused 
it to rain upon the earth and there was no 
man to till the ground. 

6. But there went up a mist from the earth and 
watered the whole face of the ground. 

7. And the Lord God formed man of the dust 
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils 
the breath of life and man became a living 
soul." 

God's original creation, as shown in the pre- 
ceding chapter, having ended with the third verse 
of this same chapter in Genesis, this allegory 
of the second creation begins with the fourth 
verse. The reader will notice that in the first 

creation, the Creator is designated as God, but 
5 



66 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

in this second he is known as Lord God. As 
these two allegories were, according to scientific 
evidence, written from three to four hundred 
years apart, the custom of the times will per- 
haps account for the change in the phraseology. 

Owing to an ignorant and vulgar construction 
placed upon the meaning of these verses by the 
masses, and which has become imbedded deep 
into the common mind as the truth, I realize the 
importance of being very plain and explicit in 
order to combat the prejudices of the age. It is 
simply an error thought that has become a 
scourge to mankind, and which if believed as 
truth, man is certainly lost, for so long as he 
believes it, the gates of Paradise will be closed 
against him. 

Therefore in the beginning, what do these 
verses say? The earth and the heavens are 
already made, and every plant and herb in the 
field before it grew, no rain, no man to till the 
soil, and why did such an understanding exist 
ages after God had created the universe and 
man? The answer will be found in the next 
verse. There went up a mist from the earth 
(not heaven) and watered the whole face of the 
ground. This mist was a misunderstanding 
which had become embedded in the mind of all 



ADAM AND EVE. 67 

humanity, or, in other words, man was not at 
this age Hving in his true, normal condition. 
The material mind had usurped its power to 
such an extent that the spiritual mind had lost 
all significance; or, in other words, this was an 
age of purely material cultivation. All true 
sense of God had been lost, or almost forgotten, 
for in the next verse, see the error which had 
now developed in the mind. Man, according to 
the material mind, was developed from the dust 
of the ground, and the Lord God having breathed 
into his nostrils, man had become a living soul. 
This is not in accordance of God's first creation, 
which God had previously blessed and said was 
finished. Therefore, it must be an error thought 
which had developed in the mind" of man, in 
consequence of a neglect of the spiritual endowed 
instinct. This condition had become general, 
and pervaded the minds of all humanity. So in 
giving the life of one, the entire human family, 
who live the material life only, may be included. 
These verses tell us that the spiritual man, the 
one who was created in the image of his Creator 
was not manifested. The divine law had long 
been forgotten. He had been away from the 
presence of God so long, that he only remem- 
bered his animal nature as he was created on the 



68 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

fifth day of God's original creation, as described 
in the previous chapter. 

A material man at this age, living purely the 
material life, nothing more. 

GARDEN OF EDEN. 
(Genesis II: 8 to 17 inclusive.) 

8. " And the Lord God planted a garden east- 
ward in Eden : and there he put the man he 
had formed. 

9. And out of the ground made the Lord God 
to grow every tree that is pleasant to the 
sight; and good for food; the tree of life 
also in the midst of the garden, and the 
tree of knowledge of good and evil. 

10. And a river went out of Eden to water the 
garden; and from thence it was parted and 
became into four heads. 

11. The name of the first is Pison; that is it 
which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, 
where there is gold; 

12. And the gold of that land is good: there is 
bdellium and the onyx stone. 

13. And the name of the second river is Gehon: 
the same is it that compasseth the whole 
land of Ethiopia. 

14. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel : 



GARDEN OF EDEN. 69 

that is it which goeth toward the east of 
Assyria. And the fourth is Euphrates. 

15. And the Lord God took the man and put 
him into the garden of Eden to dress it and 
to keep it. 

16. And the Lord God commanded the man, 
saying of every tree of the garden, thou 
mayest freely eat. 

17. But of the tree of knowledge of good and 
evil, thou shalt not eat of it : for in the day 
thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." 

In the next ten verses we find the man pic- 
tured in a beautiful garden of plenty. Not in 
Eden proper, but in the Eastern part thereof. 
Therefore, it was not Paradise, but rather a 
worldly condition, from this there proceeded a 
great river which divided and penetrated the 
four quarters of the earth. 

By virtue of this his dominion extended over 
the entire world, all fertile, well watered and 
rich in the products desired by the material man, 
but the garden of his home is filled with all va- 
rieties of select fruit trees, all pleasant to the sight 
and good for food when properly obtained, but 
the most prominent and desirable of which 
stands in the midst of all. It is the tree of life 
and tree of knowledge of good and evil. 



70 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

It is here that man is given a home to culti- 
vate and enjoy, with only one restriction. Of 
every tree he could freely eat, save the tree of 
knowledge of good and evil. In the day he 
ate of this the penalty was death to his material 
self, and why, the reader may ask, was there 
such a severe penalty inflicted, for so light a 
fault? The answer is this, to cultivate an ac- 
quaintance and partake of this tree, was to accept 
and again come into a realization of his true self 
and his oneness with God, and in such an event 
the material must necessarily be sacrificed. 
Hence to this there was no vindictive punish- 
ment, but simply the fulfilling of the law. 
The Apostle Paul says, '' If Christ be in you, 
the body is dead, because of sin; but the spirit 
is life because of righteousness. For as many 
as are led by the spirit of God, they are the Sons 
of God." (Rom. viii: lo and 14.) 

MATERIAL LIFE. 
(Genesis II: 18 to 25, inclusive.) 

18. " And the Lord God said, it is not good that 
the man should be alone; I will make him 
an help meet for him. 

19. And out of the ground the Lord God formed 



GARDEN OF EDEN. 71 

every beast of the field, and every fowl of the 
air; and brought them unto Adam to see 
what he would call them; and whatsoever 
Adam called every living creature, that was 
the name thereof. 

20. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to 
the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the 
field; but for Adam there was not found 
an help meet for him. 

2 1 . And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall 
upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one 
of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead 
thereof ; 

22. And the rib which the Lord God had taken 
from man, made he a woman, and brought 
her unto the man. 

23. And Adam said. This is now bone of my 
bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be 
called woman, because she was taken out of 
man. 

24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and 
his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; 
and they shall be one flesh. 

25. And they were both naked, the man and his 
wife, and were not ashamed." 

In the above paragraph of eight verses just 
read, a desire first comes for a companion, or 



72 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

help meet. The animal kingdom is now created, 
in God's usual methods as shown in first chapter, 
and named, being all of a material nature. The 
names that the man gave were established in 
the same way and by the same methods that re- 
ceive the sanction of the world at this age, for 
there is no evidence that the customs of this 
character have ever experienced any serious 
reforms. As for himself, he now assumes the 
name of Adam, the well known definition of the 
name is, red earth or earth spiritually defined 
as nothing. And if this be appropriate, it would 
also signify that the man Adam at this age is 
living mainly the material life, the spiritual at- 
tribute not to any great extent manifesting itself, 
or simply flesh and body, no thought of a higher 
life. However, the spiritual instinct was cer- 
tainly there, but by an abnormal mental sugges- 
tive control of the material mind over it, the 
spiritual had apparently lost about all of its 
power over the man, and, in consequence of 
this abnormal condition, it was in a manner lay- 
ing dormant, but always ready for active work 
for the good of humanity. 

A help meet for Adam has now become a 
necessity. A desire had previously been ex- 
pressed, as noted in the first verse of this para- 



GARDEN OF EDEN. 73 

graph, but the reader may observe that this addi- 
tional creation does not manifest alongside of the 
other creations, but comes now in an entirely 
different manner, because of its dual character. 

A deep sleep now falls upon Adam and he 
slept, signifying that the material senses or physi- 
cal man is in deep slumber, utterly unconscious, 
and in a very passive condition. So the spiritual 
mind which never sleeps, for the time being as- 
sumes control. It remembers the desire for a 
companion had previously been expressed, and 
as the cause of humanity was one of its chief 
attributes, and by exercise of its divine endowed 
power this one spiritual manifestation of the man 
is to be granted. God's creations all come in the 
usual way as described in preceding chapter. 

Adam awakens to find a female at his side, en- 
dowed like him.self, which is signified by the rib 
and form of appearance, for he says, she is now 
bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, she shall 
be called woman because she was taken out of 
man, and for this cause man shall leave his 
father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and 
they shall be one flesh. 

And they were both naked and were not 
ashamed, and why ? They were male and female, 
both of the same nature, living only in a worldly 



74 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

sense, and not in harmony with the divine law. 
They had not sufficient divine intelhgence to 
discover the absence of their normal spiritual 
manifestations of which they had become de- 
ficient. 

THE BETRAYAL. 
(Gen. Ill: i to 21, inclusive.) 

1. " Now, the vSerpent was the more subtle than 
any other beast of the field which the Lord 
God had made, and he said unto "the woman, 
Yea hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every 
tree of the garden. 

2. And the woman said unto the serpent, we 
may eat of the fruit of the trees of the gar- 
den; 

3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the 
midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall 
not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it lest 
ye die. 

4. And the serpent said unto the woman, ye 
shall not surelv die. . 

5. For God doth know that in the day ye eat 
thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and 
ye shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil. 

6. And when the woman saw that the tree was 
good for food, and that it was pleasant to 



GARDEN OF EDEN. 75 

the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one 
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did 
eat, and gave also unto her husband with 
her; and he did eat. 

7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and 
they knew that they were naked; and they 
sewed fig leaves together and made them- 
selves aprons. 

8. And they heard the voice of the Lord God 
walking in the garden in the cool of the 
day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves 
from the presence of the Lord God amongst 
the trees of the garden. 

9. And the Lord God called unto Adam and 
said unto him, Where art thou? 

10. And he said, I heard thy voice in the gar- 
den, and I was afraid, because I was naked 
and I hid myself. 

11. And he said who told thee that thou wast 
naked ? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof 
I commanded thee that thou shouldst not 
eat? 

12. And the man said, The woman whom thou 
gavest to be with me, she gave me of the 
tree, and I did eat. 

13. And the Lord God said unto the woman, 
what is this that thou hast done? And the 



76 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

woman said, the serpent beguiled me and 
I did eat. 

14. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, 
because thou hast done this, thou art cursed 
above all cattle, and above every beast of the 
field; upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust 
shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. 

15. And I will put enmity between thee and the 
woman, and between thy seed and her seed; 
it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise 
his heel. 

16. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multi- 
ply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sor- 
row thou shalt bring forth children; and 
thy desire shalt be to thy husband and he 
shall rule over thee. 

17. And unto Adam he said. Because thoii hast 
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and 
hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded 
thee saying, thou shalt not eat of it, cursed 
is the ground for thy sake, in sorrow thou 
shalt eat of it all the days of thy life; 

18. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to 
thee ; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field ; 

19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, 
till thou return unto the ground; for out of 



GARDEN OF EDEN. 77 

it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and 
unto dust shalt thou return. 

20. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; be- 
•cause she was the mother of all living. 

21. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the 
Lord God make coats of skins and clothed 
them." 

In the last interpretation Adam seemed to 
have reached the highest pinnacle of material 
man's ambition, not in Paradise, which, owing 
to its spiritual significance, was more perfect, 
but in the Eastern part of Eden indicating a lofty 
sphere of worldly attainment, a fertile land on 
which there are all the necessities in a worldly 
sense of a vigorous and prosperous life before 
him, control of a river compassing the four quar- 
ters of the earth, giving him dominion over his 
entire worldly domain. 

In the material sense he may be the head of 
a household, a merchant prince, a banker, a rail- 
road magnate, an oil king, or the head of a great 
nation, it matters not which, suffice me to say 
he had reached his highest ambition. So let the 
reader behold the man and wife now upon their 
visionary throne, with their bodies adorned in 
the most approved fashions of the day, and with 
an attribute of pride and contempt for their 



78 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

neighbors, I think I hear them exclaim: The 
world is ours, what more could we ask? But, 
reader^ wait until you fully realize that the picture 
I draw now is the usual culmination of material 
life. 

The Tempter. 

Behold the tempter, the most subtle of any, 
is near, and at the first favorable opportunity, its 
head from out of hiding appears. It comes to 
man in the nature of thought, and while sitting 
upon this exalted position, which a great bene- 
factor through love had made possible; the 
woman, the weaker of the two, hears a whisper 
from behind; there is still one thing more re- 
quired to complete your happiness, says the temp- 
ter. What is that, she in amazement replies; 
for in the stillness of the moment a selfish feeling 
of pride and vanity is aroused; be still and 
listen, and in a low, subtle voice, tinctured with 
flattery, it tells her of the forbidden fruit, the 
tree of knowledge of good and evil in the midst 
of the garden, which a wise and generous bene- 
factor had forbidden them to touch. At first 
her only thought is one of obedience, and that of 
the penalty for disobedience, but the quiet, sub- 
tle voice speaks again with more force, and by 



GARDEN OF EDEN. 79 

argument convinces her that her benefactor had 
a selfish motive in preventing this acquirement. 
Her selfish ambition and envy was again aroused, 
and she determines to fathom the mystery; but 
before doing so, she may have consulted Adam 
(but upon this point the Allegory is not clear) 
and aroused his vanity, and while he is not yet 
convinced that he should lead in such a treacher- 
ous act, he does not forbid it on her part; think- 
ing as the man usually does that he will be held 
blameless. 

So the woman, with that selfish longing desire, 
which is always plainly manifested as one of the 
chief attributes of the material mind, seeks a 
higher and greater attainment. With this idea 
in view, she seeks for the tree in the midst of 
the garden. With a trembling step and in se- 
crecy, amid only the rustling of the leaves of the 
branches, she approaches the enchanted object 
of her desire. She reaches forth for the fruit 
and eats, and lo and behold a dazzling light from 
out of the heaven appears, and in the brilliancy of 
that unfolding light she reads: 

The Divine Lazv of Creation. 

"I am God, I am the spirit of divine love, 
intelligent thought, life and truth. I am the 



80 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

creator of all good. By me, perfection, peace 
and harmony is developed and maintained; 
all things are made by me, and without me 
there is nothing made that is made; in me 
there is life, and this life is life eternal, let 
all nature bow and worship me, for there 
is no other God but me." 
With a mind filled with wonder, she hastens 
to the presence of Adam and implores him to 
eat, as the fruit seems good, and notwithstand- 
ing that attitude of deceit and treachery which 
he would have to assume, he eats, and lo the eyes 
of both are opened, as indicated by the aprons, 
another flash and another light from out of the 
heaven appears to their vision, and in the further 
unfolding of the light they behold, 

God's Chief Command, 

" Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with 

all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with 

all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself." 

It is the voice of God which Adam heard in 

the garden, "Adam, where art thou?" They 

hide away, for in the brilliancy of the divine light 

they have discovered their nakedness, or, in other 

words, they had come into a realization that they 

had long failed to cultivate the soul-endowed 



GARDEN OF EDEN. 81 

mind, and were ashamed to meet their benefactor. 
Their eyes now being opened, their act of be- 
trayal was plainly apparent. Upon coming to 
the open, Adam attempts to deny his treachery, 
by accusing his wife, but in his efforts to do this 
he convicts himself by acknowledging his naked- 
ness. The woman also adopts a similar method, 
and endeavors to satisfy her conscience by plac- 
ing the crime upon the tempter, but under the 
workings of the divine law, all effort to shift 
responsibility for sin upon another is a failure. 

Before going further into the subject, I wish 
to be more plain regarding the difference in sins. 
To my mind they are divided into two classes, 
the spiritual and physical or moral. God, by 
virtue of the law, '' will render to every man 
according to his deeds." (Rom. ii : 6.) 

It has been said by Jesus that violation of the 
laws of spiritual existence is followed by in- 
evitable spiritual penalties, and the common ex- 
perience of mankind teaches appropriate physical 
penalties are the necessary result of the viola- 
tion of the physical laws. 

Excepting the sin against the Holy Ghost, we 
are told by the New Testament all such violations 
may be atoned for. 

Let the reader observe that the tree of life had 



82 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

not been touched by Adam and wife; it was only 
of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and 
evil of which they had eaten. ■ This act of itself 
could be no crime, consequently it must be the 
method through which it was obtained. 

To make a proper deduction from this hypothe- 
sis, we find the spiritual law violated in many 
degrees chief of which, to my mind, was treach- 
ery and deceit. This was enough, but not all; 
there was greed, selfishness, pride and vanity 
strongly represented in this one act. Judas Is- 
cariot was impelled by the same motives to be- 
tray the Master. 

The God that I have here endeavored to repre- 
sent, is a God of love, and, if I am right in my 
deductions, he could curse no man; but in the 
glare of that light which comes to man from eat- 
ing of the fruit of the tree ef good and evil, an 
intelligent intuition which by this act Ad^m and 
the woman have again obtained, as indicated by 
their aprons and coats of skin, their fate is re- 
vealed to them, and it is at the suggestion of the 
thought forces upon the mind of the evil-doer 
that the penalty soon begins to develop. There 
is a deep, scientific principle underlymg this great 
truth. If we would inspire love from another, 



GARDEN OF EDEN. 83 

we should first send out a thought of love to the 
other. 

'' He that takes the sword shall perish by the 
sword." Ignorance is the basis of all selfishness. 
The rnan who is truly wise in spiritual law is 
never selfish. He seeks nothing for himself that 
he would not seek for a neighbor. To entertain 
feelings of anger, envy, hatred and jealousy 
toward another we suffer much more than one 
toward whom we entertain them. 

Selfishness is the basis of all error and crime, 
and in the degree which this attribute of mind 
usurps the throne of the normal reasoning power 
of man, in that same degree is the conscious 
identity of the spiritual or soul-mind lost, it is 
thus that the realization of divine power and the 
hope of a condition of Paradise is lost. 

It was this attitude of mind manifested in 
Adam and wife that caused them to commit this 
act of treachery. The betrayal of a friend and 
benefactor, the most heinous of all crimes, it 
branded them as traitors and banished them from 
a home of plenty, and made them outcasts upon 
the earth, and in the absence of a proper atone- 
ment to die an ignominious death. 

Judas, by the same motives, accepted thirty 
pieces of silver from the Jewish Church author- 



84 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

ities to point out the Master with a kiss, and 
finally, under a strain of remorse, cast it at the 
feet of the bribers and then committed suicide. 

How often do we hear of the bank president, 
the cashier, the clerk, a trusted agent, a confi- 
dential friend, or a wayward child, under the same 
influence, committing an act of treachery and 
becoming a traitor, then seeking to hide away 
and finally die an ignominious death in a foreign 
land. 

Let the father, mother, son and daughter be- 
hold in this old, old Allegorical picture the story 
of the common life of man, for it is the same 
today as it was in the beginning. If there be a 
household, or a business, or a church society in 
this great world which God in infinite wisdom 
and love has given them that it not tainted with 
this attribute of selfishness, these words are not 
for them. 

My picture is drawn thus plainly for the bene- 
fit of the poor, ignorant sinner, not for the 
wise and good. 

The nations of the earth which have come and 
gone have all followed in the footsteps of Adam, 
and if we read the history of those who still 
survive, the trail of the serpent soon becomes 
apparent, and it is thus that this subtile thought 



GARDEN OF EDEN. 85 

has become the enmity of the seed of woman, 
and by virtue of this thought the errors of the 
human race have been greatly multipHed, and 
in consequence of the weakness displayed by the 
woman, she becomes subordinate to the man, 
thus not only increasing his labors and responsi- 
bilities, but strewing the pathway of his life 
with intrigue and shame as the thorns and thistles 
would indicate. 

Adam gave to his wife the name of Eve, be- 
cause she was the mother of all living, thus 
making his history the record of the life of all 
mankind. 

But in the eating of the fruit of the tree of 
knowledge of good and evil, they had as yet only 
obtained a glimpse of a new life. This knowl- 
edge was only a slight one, but is now much 
better than when the apron was given as the 
covering of the skins seem to indicate to me. 
See the symbol illustration. In nature, look at 
the native of America's new possessions, the more 
intelligent they become the more complete the 
covering of the body. 

THE BANISHMENT. 

(Genesis III: 22 to 24, inclusive.) 

22, " And the Lord God said. Behold the man 



86 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

has become as one of us, to know good and 
evil, and now lest he put forth his hand, and 
take also of the tree of life, and eat, and 
live forever. 
2^, Therefore, the Lord God sent him forth from 
the garden of Eden to till the ground from 
whence he was taken. 
24. So he drove out the man and placed at the 
East of the garden of Eden cherubims, and 
a flaming sword which turned every way, 
to keep the way of the tree of life." 
Adam and Eve, bv virtue of the divine 
law, came again into a realization of that in- 
telligent power of which they had originally been 
endowed. We behold them in deep thought near- 
ing the outer gates of the Paradise of Eden, 
which is now observed in the distance. With a 
record of their past life deeply imbedded in their 
mind, a panorama of a new life is sweeping be- 
fore them. They realize that through the opera- 
tion of thought, they have the power of mind 
within them to open or close themselves to the 
divine inflow of spiritual life exactly as they 
choose. This power comes to man by virtue of 
his dual mind. The material having been en- 
dowed with the reasoning power. The spiritual 
mind, notwithstanding its superior intelligence 



GARDEN OF EDEN. 87 

was placed subordinate thereto, such being neces- 
sary in order to render to man the power of being 
a free moral agent. Arrayed in a coat of skin, 
the spiritual mind begins to manifest in thought. 

Adam and Eve are now in the condition of the 
man whose mind is filled with thoughts of refor- 
mation. They realize that the past life, although 
surrounded with many environments very pleas- 
ing to the eye, it was fraught with so many diffi- 
culties that the happiness anticipated was never 
attained, and the methods of their past life must 
be forever forsaken or eternal banishment and 
death everlasting was their doom. 

With a trembling figure and a pulseless heart, 
they take a glance backward and lo, the gates 
of the garden in the distance are closing. But 
in the dazzling brilliancy of the angelic cheru- 
bims in the East of the garden and from the 
glare of the blazing light, issuing from the flam- 
ing sword, which protects the tree of life, turn- 
ing every way to keep the way of salvation and 
eternal life, they behold the spirit of God's law. 

Love and Truth. 

And what do these words imply ? It tells them, 
under the divine law, man cannot worship God 
and mammon. Worldly possessions beyond a 



88 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

certain amount cannot be used to advantage, over- 
abundance becomes a hindrance rather than a 
help, a curse rather than a blessing. 

Man who worships power to accumulate all 
his life, and at the end, even if he leaves all to 
charity, has failed, because he worshiped greed 
instead of his Creator. The banker, or capitalist 
who charges usury interest has failed, because 
by virtue of his power he has robbed a neighbor. 

The man, or the legislator, who accepts a bribe 
to commit an act of treachery against the public 
good, has failed, because he worships selfishness 
and greed instead of his Creator. 

The young man or young lady who knowingly 
lavishly adorns the body, at the unwilling expense 
of a neighbor, has failed, because they live for 
self only. The parent who worships the child 
to the extent of gratifying nearly all of its usual 
demands has failed to obey God's chief com- 
mand, because they have made an idol of the off- 
spring and God is forgotten. 

The world was created for the enjoyment of 
mankind. For man by virtue of his endowment 
was given dominion over all, but this power can- 
not be misused without penalty. " But if we are 
one with this infinite power, this source of all 
things, then in a degree that we live in realiza- 



GARDEN OF EDEN. 89 

tion of this oneness, in that degree, we actualize 
in ourselves a power that will bring to us abun- 
dance of all things desirable for us to have." 

For a persistent neglect of these duties Adam 
and Eve were banished from a garden of Eden 
to go forth out in the great world to till the 
ground from whence they were taken; or in 
other words, to learn of this power which marks 
the way of the tree of life, which lives in the 
midst of the garden of Eden. 

There is still hope for Adam and Eve, for 
Jesus of Nazareth promulgated the doctrine of 
faith and belief, and the spirit of truth, the com- 
forter which was to come in its onward march 
is rapidly sweeping through the universe today 
to the mind of all mankind. In order to live in 
harmony with the divine law, and thus become 
an heir to eternal life, man must cultivate this 
new field. To refuse to do so, would simply 
mean Paradise Lost. 



PART THIRD. 



Paradise Won. 



Love and Truth. The Way to the Tree of Life 

Defined. 

In the beginning of the twentieth century, the 
age in which I write, an intelHgent Hght beams 
forth from the mind of mankind. In conse- 
quence of the divine law of evolution it comes 
at this period, more rapidly than in the past. 

Through faith in the divine word, man be- 
lieves it to be the promised Comforter, which 
was to come, even the Spirit of Truth, which 
through scientific research tells of the method of 
man's redemption. 

The world is just what he himself makes it, 
" every thought he entertains is a force sent out, 
and is returned ladened with its kind. Love is 
the fulfilling of the law." " It is the key to life 
and happiness, and the greatest influencing power 
known to mankind." In a sense it is all in all. 

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LOVE AND TRUTH. 91 

If man would create for himself a kingdom 
of heaven, there is but one way to do it, and 
that way is through love and truth, and not 
through selfishness, treachery and deceit, as 
shown by the record of Adam and Eve, in the 
preceding chapter. 

Selfishness, treachery, deceit, hatred, jealousy, 
vanity and false pride are not in harmony with 
the law of the universe. Such attributes of mind 
mark the way to banishment and death. 

Ignorance is the basis of all selfishness and 
selfishness is man's greatest foe, because it is the 
root of all evil. It is an attribute of mind which 
cannot entirely be disguised, for even the animals 
feel the effects of this subtile force as quickly 
as mankind, hence with a mind filled with such 
emotions, man can never come into a conscious 
realization of his oneness with infinite life and 
power. 

It was the subtile influence of such thoughts 
that forced Adam and Eve, the representatives of 
all mankind, from the presence of infinite life; 
it drove man forth from the garden of Eden to 
till the ground from whence he was taken, which 
is to cultivate the material mind. Or, in other 
words, he cannot again enter a complete state 
of happiness until he banishes all thoughts of 



92 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

selfishness and greed from his mind, and culti- 
vates a spiritual attitude of the mind inspired 
with love and truth. 

In order to verify this truth, it is not necessary 
for man to go way back to the beginning, but 
let him look out among his friends and acquaint- 
ances nearer home, aye, even at his own fireside, 
he will behold this subtile influence there. 

Let the reader remember that the picture of 
the life of Adam and Eve, is simply the story of 
the life of all mankind. And if you are not 
living in a conscious realization of your oneness 
with infinite love, it is the story of your own 
Hfe. 

Man when first endowed in the image and like- 
ness of his Creator ; male and female, was blessed 
by being placed in a condition of Paradise and, 
by virtue of this intelligent power, was given 
dominion over every living thing, and com- 
manded to be fruitful, multiply, replenish, and 
subdue the earth. 

It has been the task of science to discover the 
underlying principle through which this great 
work of man might best be achieved, and it is 
through their untiring efforts that the divine law 
of the universe is today unfolding. 

In my hypothesis presented for the preceding 



LOVE AND TRUTH. 93 

chapters of this book, man, according to the view 
by some of the most scientific minds, has been 
endowed by his Creator with a dual mind, which 
for the benefit of the readers of this book, I have 
chosen to distinguish, by designating the first 
as material mind, and the other as the spiritual. 
And while the duty of each has already been 
defined, it would be well for the reader, not 
only to believe in the duality of mind, but to 
remember that while the spiritual mind, as so 
clearly shown by Hudson in the Law of Psychic 
Phenomena, has absolute control of the functions, 
conditions, and sensations of the body, it is con- 
stantly amenable to control by power of mental 
or oral suggestion by the material mind. 

In order that man may be a free moral agent, 
this must be a fact, at least up to a certain time, 
which will develop later on as more of the divine 
endowed gifts to man appear. Such then being 
the fact, the material mind becomes responsible 
and must answer for the deeds of the spiritual 
mind while in the body. 

Thus it will be observed that the power of sug- 
gestion and mental telepathy become great factors 
In the conduct and welfare of all humanity. And 
while the fundamental principles of these two 
great factors of the human mind are not yet thor- 



94 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

oughly understood by science, ample demonstra- 
tions have already been produced which tend to 
show that these two attributes of the mind are 
not only accurate but most wonderful in power. 

A thought originates in the brain dictated by 
the physical senses and immediately by mental 
suggestion, is transmitted by telepathy to the 
spiritual mind. Then, perhaps, an oral suggestion 
may follow to strengthen it, or either way, the 
body which is under constant control must act 
in accordance. The law of evolution will then 
take hold and carry the results of the suggestion 
on and on to the day of eternity. Thus it is that 
every thought, word or deed must reflect upon 
the future welfare of all mankind. 

The normal, well-poised man, who by virtue 
of his spiritual endowment recognizes his oneness 
with the divine mind, assumes an attitude of do- 
minion, and by and through the law of evolution, 
develops into great power. 

It is not unreasonable to believe that ere long 
man will discover the true method of communi- 
cating between mind and mind. Indeed, if re- 
ports are to be believed, the recent demonstra- 
tion of Mr. Stead and his associates of London, 
this has already been accomplished for a distance 
of more than one hundred miles. However, the 



LOVE AND TRUTH. 95 

means through which this last achievement may 
be scientifically acquired has not been proclaimed. 

But if man is able to construct an instrument 
by which wireless messages may be sent and re- 
ceived, there is no reason to doubt his ability 
to produce a more delicate instrument in tune 
with the human brain, that will transmit thought 
from mind to mind without regard to time or 
distance. Notwithstanding science has not yet 
been able to unravel all the mysteries of the un- 
derlying principles in this field of research, well 
they know that this is the method and source of 
all of man's good and wise creation. 

Thus it would seem that the truly wise and 
well poised normal divine endowed man is only 
a little lower than the divine infinite life which 
originally created him. And tO' assume this at- 
titude and live under the dictates of a mind filled 
with the spirit of love and truth, man under the 
law takes dominion and complies with God's chief 
command, for this is worshiping the Lord thy 
God with all thy mind and soul and thy neigh- 
bor as thyself. 

The pure and divine thoughts which constantly 
overshadow him are his angels, and the thoughts 
of ignorance and error through which his path- 
way in life is usually strewn is the evil or error 



96 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

spirits, which, if allowed to be entertained and 
cultivated within the mind, will soon cause his 
fall and banishment from the realms of a peace- 
ful, happy, harmonious life. 

To work in conjunction with the divine power 
of the Spirit of Love and Truth, leads man to 
optimism and power. He will climb higher and 
higher the ladder of fame and success, until he 
reaches the highest pinnacle of his ambition. 

While the man who works in conjunction with 
materialism, and seeks only after worldly attain- 
ments, forgetting his true endowed spiritual 
identity, is under the natural attributes of the 
divine law, led to pessimism, and pessimism leads 
to weakness and failure. 

The true secret of man's power lies in keeping 
himself constantly in tune with the spirit of love 
and truth. This is the power that worketh all 
things for the best. And all things become pos- 
sible to him who constantly lives in oneness with 
it ; " God is a spirit, and they that worship him, 
must worship him in spirit and in truth." (John 
iv; 24.) 

Therefore, in order to truly worship God, the 
idea prevailing in the minds of the many that he 
is a person, in a body of flesh like unto a man, 
must be discarded, but rather let the mind be 



THE WAY TO THE TREE OF LIFE. 97 

filled with an attribute of love for all humanity.- 
Love, honor and worship all good, all truth and 
all purity wherever found, and protect the honor 
and integrity of a brother and neighbor when- 
ever possible. A feeling of gratitude and thank- 
fulness for blessings received will always be ap-» 
parent in the evenly poised mind. This brings 
the mind into a receptive attitude, and a con- 
scious realization of a oneness with God. It 
brings harmony to the mind and body, producing 
a quiet, peaceful, illuminating power, in com- 
plete, harmonious relation with all creation. 

Such, to my mind, is the true method of wor- 
shiping infinite God, that spirit of love and truth 
which marks the way to the tree of life. 

The Way to the Tree of Life. 

This was the light emanating from the celestial 
cherubims and flaming sword which dazzled the 
spiritual vision of Adam and Eve, as they per- 
ceived the gates of Paradise. Having lived only 
in the material or worldly sense, it was an at- 
tribute of mind which they had long neglected 
but now, after having eaten of the fruit of the 
tree of good and evil, they had become more 
spiritual with an intuition which enabled them to 
perceive that great truth, that if they desired to 



98 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

enjoy its benefits, a reformation becomes neces- 
sary, a new field is to be cultivated, a new course 
of mental instruction is the one thing now most 
needed in order to attain a true realization of 
that higher life which comes only through living 
in a thought of love for everything. This is said 
to be the key to life, because thoughts of love 
from everything are returned. 

Selfishness, greed, envy and all kindred emo- 
tions are unnatural and not in harmony with the 
divine law, for if love is the fulfilling of the law, 
its opposite must be direct violation, and there 
can never be such violations without penalty. 

The tree of life to man is the full and complete 
enjoyment of all power. It comes by the per- 
sistent eating of the fruit. Emanating from the 
spirit of the divine law, a complete reformation, 
a new birth and a new life must precede the 
crowning event of this Holy Spirit of power. 
To be born again, and live in the fullness of all 
power, is to follow in the footsteps of the Master. 
For these are the words of Jesus as he spoke of 
his Disciples, as revealed in St. John x : 27th and 
28th verses. '' My sheep hear my voice, and I 
know them and they follow me; 

And I give unto them eternal life; and they 



THE WAY TO THE TREE OF LIFE. 99 

shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck 
them out of my hand." 

These words of Jesus were spoken in a spir- 
itual sense, and not from a material standpoint, 
as the world has so long in error believed. It 
means that the spiritual mind or the soul, the 
only true image of God, should never die. 

Thus it was that Jesus again proclaimed the 
immortality of the soul. During his entire ca- 
reer, he had shown by many demonstrations that 
he was able to perceive all of the divine laws as 
no man ever before had been able to do. His 
mission on earth was the savior of souls of man- 
kind, and he was the first to proclaim the doctrine 
of faith — that the soul is '' saved to immortal 
life through belief will then be punished or re- 
warded according to deeds done in the body." 

Adam and Eve Seeking the Way. 

The picture which I now draw is in line with 
the redeemed. Let the reader follow closely, and 
watch for the development of the spirit of truth 
that may mark out to him a natural or scientific 
way of man's redemption. 

Before entering further into the subject, I de- 
sire the reader to understand that the method 
which is now to be pursued is presumed by many 



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100 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

advanced thinkers to be strictly in line with the 
teachings of the Master as recorded in the New 
Testament, which is now, according to scientific 
research, most accurate and complete. There- 
fore, in my efforts to define a true interpretation 
of a part of this divine word, it will not be my 
purpose to add to or take from the marvelous 
record of the teachings of the Son and Master. 
But first let me say, that some new psychic 
laws have recently been discovered by science, and 
although but little of this power is yet known, 
" it would seem that this is the true method by 
which the wonderful cures are effected and other 
marvelous phenomenas developed. Although 
this fact is now scientifically established," it will, 
without doubt, be new to many readers. It is 
not the province of this book to go into general 
details of mental therapeutics, therefore, after 
a few brief conclusions regarding telepathy and 
its primary relations and normal methods of com- 
munication between the spiritual minds, I will 
simply refer the reader who desires to investigate 
further into the details of this subject to " Phan- 
tasms of the Living," or ^' The Law of Psychic 
Phenomena," by Hudson, in which will be found 
many of the experiments of the London Society 
of Psychical Research. Either of these will be 



THE WAY TO THE TREE OF LIFE. 101 

found to be most complete and thorough, and 
should be read by all who desire advanced light 
on psychic knowledge. 

Owing to man's ignorance of the divine law, 
he has for ages been grouping in darkness. In 
order to understand the science of being, it now 
becomes necessary for Adam and Eve, who are 
presumed to be the representatives of all man- 
kind, to first realize that all prejudices derived 
from early education must, of necessity, be elim- 
inated from the mind. Being conscious of this 
fact, they are then ready to open themselves to 
an inflow of a spirit of love so that they may 
come into a conscious realization " that in their 
life and work they will be true to that eternal 
principle of right, of truth, and of justice that 
runs .through all the universe," and governs all. 

In this way they will come into harmony with 
a spirit of peace. Evil reports or bad treatment, 
either from friends or foe, will no longer be a 
disturbing element. In this way they will soon 
come into a conscious realization of their Son- 
ship with their heavenly Father, their oneness 
with infinite life. 

" This is the bread which cometh down from 
heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die," 
(John vi: 50.) This Sonship with the heavenly 



102 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

Father which was so frequently demonstrated 
by Jesus who came upon earth to show mankind 
the way to the tree of Hfe, must be recognized by 
Adam and Eve before they can enter into a full 
realization of the manifestations of infinite power. 
Jesus in the next verse says, '' I am (meaning 
the son or spiritually endowed mind) the living 
bread which came down from heaven; if any 
man eat of this bread, he shall live forever ; and 
the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I 
will give for the life of the world." (John vi: 

51.) 

In the next verse it will be observed that this 

saying of Jesus was not understood in that age. 
" The Jews therefore strove among themselves, 
saying: How can this man give us his flesh to 
eat?" (John vi: 52.) Note the reply : **Then 
Jesus said unto them, verily, verily, I say unto 
you, except you eat of the flesh of the Son of 
Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." 
(John vi: 53.) 

Truly the world was not ready in that age for 
an entire unfolding of the divine law, for even 
now, after nineteen hundred years, the masses 
do not fully understand the meaning of the words 
of the Master just quoted. It was to correct a 
few errors of this character that my work of 



THE WAY TO THE TREE OF LIFE. 103 

Paradise Lost and Won was inspired. In these 
verses, man is plainly told that he must not only 
recognize his Sonship the same as Jesus himself 
had done, but that he must sacrifice the flesh and 
the importance heretofore maintained of the at- 
tributes of the material mind, and be hereafter 
guided by the spiritual attributes of the mind. 
In order that man may live forever, his own 
flesh was to be given as a sacrifice, as a symbol 
for the benefit of all mankind, that they might 
thus more easily perceive the true method of re- 
demption. 

The Jews as a nation, by virtue of a spiritual 
attitude which they had long maintained, had 
previously been greatly favored and blessed, but 
at this age, although very strict in discipline, the 
masses depending upon the ofiBcials of their 
church societies for all spiritual knowledge, were 
again drifting away from that spiritual attitude 
formerly taught by Moses. 

Thus to the officials of the church more than 
to the masses, the doctrine taught by Jesus which 
closely conformed to the teachings of Moses and 
the prophets, were not in harmony with the 
methods of the church then in vogue, therefore, 
owing to some stinging rebukes and the fear of 
losing power over the masses, a few of the offi- 



104 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

cials only became responsible for his crucifixion 
on the cross. It was simply the natural cul- 
mination of this great event. Jesus in his per- 
ception of the law, not only knew the ultimate 
end of the flesh, but in a figurative way frequently 
proclaimed it. " He came unto his own and his 
own received him not." There is a great scien- 
tific principle underlying this. If a man desires 
to accomplish any great work, he must go away 
from home to do it. 

The Jews, as a race, under the dictates of the 
church, could not understand the new dispensa- 
tion. But the words and teachings of this great 
Master went out to the world, and in distant 
climes man, today, hears the echo of the truths 
then proclaimed. I have made this brief men- 
tion of the attitude of the Jews for a purpose 
as the reader may discover as I proceed. This 
attitude of mind which the Christian world has 
for ages assumed and maintained toward the 
Jewish race is not in keeping with the teachings 
of Jesus the Master. His was a doctrine of love 
for all mankind. All are equal heirs to it. To 
know this, and to live in this realization is to 
live in heaven here and now, today and every 
day. 

While the Jewish officials through ignorance 



THE WAY TO THE TREE OF LIFE. 105 

may have been, to some extent, responsible for 
the crucifixion of the flesh, a great part of the 
reHgious world of today is committing a much 
greater offense, for they presume to understand 
the law, and yet they continually crucify the spir- 
itual import of the Sonship, that conscious realiza- 
tion of their oneness with Infinite Power. 

No man, no religious organization can come 
into this realization of power who through in- 
tellectual selfishness and envy are so wrapped 
in their own conceits and prejudices that better 
and later revelations of truth can find no entrance 
to them. The fundamental principles of all re- 
ligions are the same, and are embraced in these 
words: Love and Truth, the source of all hap- 
piness, the power that controls the destiny of 
mankind. 

During the last quarter of the century just past 
some very important changes have taken place 
in the orthodox church societies. Creeds have 
been revised and many old dogmas have been 
abolished. This is an indication of higher in- 
telligence, and a great improvement so far as it 
goes, but there is room for more. Less for- 
mality and a closer union and brotherly affection 
for all good, without fear of departing from the 



106 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

old beaten paths, is the method that Jesus the 
Son followed. 

The power exercised through the teachings of 
Christian Church Societies have proved a won- 
derful civilizer. Without it, life would hardly 
be safe an hour, but still I feel if these same 
societies would only free themselves from many 
of these man-made theological dogmas that have 
so long limited their power, and would teach 
more of the divine attributes of man and more 
fully explain the harmonious workings of God's 
wonderful law of creation and evolution, they 
would not only experience a greater inflow of 
spiritual power, but many of the seats now vacant 
would be filled to overflowing. This was the 
method that the Master pursued, and the multi- 
tudes that followed his single effort were simply 
amazing. 

Telepathy. 

The march of the human race is onward. Man, 
the last and greatest of all of God's creations, 
stands at the head. To measure his capacities, or 
determine the limit of his achievements at the 
close of the present century, is today beyond the 
power of computation. With no barrier strong 
enough to overpower the omnipotence of the mind 



TELEPATHY. 107 

that will individualize itself and come intO' a con- 
scious realization of true Sonship and oneness 
with Infinite Power, as the Master did, man's 
conquest over nature will be continuous and 
rapid, and the world, under his manipulations, 
will grow practically very small. 

Man has made that unseen force of electricity 
his servant, but this may pale into insignificance 
when compared to the power of metal therapeutics 
which today casts such a brilliant light before 
the gaze of the intelligent world. 

Judging from the demonstrations made by the 
Society of Psychical Research a power of com- 
municating between mind and mind is now as 
well established as any fact in nature. 

It is claimed by scientific minds " that this 
power exists between the spiritual minds only 
and independent of other means of communica- 
tion, near relatives or near friends who are in 
full rapport with each other, are the ones most 
often found tO' be in communion, giving warning 
of sickness, death and other impending dangers. 
Communications of this character between stran- 
gers, while not so frequent, yet it appears to be 
possible." I am led to believe that most all will 
realize from their own experience that these facts 
are true, but not understanding the principles of 



108 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

the law, they have simply been grouping in the 
dark. 

This science is yet in its infancy, but when 
properly understood, many of the features of the 
mystery of mental healing will be solved. All 
memory of the so-called miracles of the dark 
ages must pass to the rear, as they will have no 
place in the mind of an intelligent man. 

Therefore, it must be assumed that telepathic 
communications can be established at will by 
either party. However, it is necessary for the 
patient, or the party receiving to be in perfect 
passive state of mind. At least, this seems to be 
the most perfect condition for the reception of 
telepathic impressions, or, in other words, pas- 
sivity means the suspension for the time being 
of the functions of the material mind as indi- 
cated by demonstrations of hypnotism, sleep being 
the most perfect condition attainable. Yet it is 
by no means the only good condition for mental 
or oral suggestion. 

Power of Suggestion. 

There is another source of great power and 
usually connected with telepathy and may be 
effective at any time whenever any condition is 
favorable, even when the parties are many miles 



POWER OF SUGGESTION. 109 

apart, as the recent demonstrations of Mr. Stead 
and his associates of London would seem to in- 
dicate. 

A recent issue of the Scientiiic American, under 
head of " Electrical Waves in the Brain," says : 
" The body is a receiver almost as perfect as a 
wire or metal rod, less a conductor than metal, 
but on the other hand, presents a wider surface, 
very advantageous to the reception of waves in 
wireless telegraphy. The brain acts as a coherer 
and afterwards di-coheres automatically. Hav- 
ing a receiver and coherer, it needs a battery. 
This is found in the nervous system. From the 
experiment made it is evident that transmission 
from brain to brain can be produced just as wire- 
less telegraphy. One brain sets the nervous 
waves in motion, and the other receives the 
waves as in the ordinary receiver." 

The mind is continually in the midst of a 
thought atmosphere, and is affected in the degree 
that it is sensitive to it, or positive against it; 
this, then, is mentally transmitted to the spiritual 
mind in rapport with it. For illustration, I will 
here mention what I believe to be a fair demon- 
stration of healing by the power of oral sugges- 
tion. 

It came under my own observation in the 



110 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

spring of 1903. A married, middle aged lady 
of very nervous temperament, very antagonistic 
to all the usual methods of scientific healing, with 
a mind filled with fear for all the usual ills of 
mankind, was suddenly attacked with an acute 
case of La Grippe, temperature ranging from 
104 to 105, but soon developed into a low, disa- 
greeable fever, or a complication of diseases. 
With two professional nurses all the time, and 
two physicians part of the time, with but very 
little sleep for either patient or nurses, and owing 
to a weak condition of the heart, and her ina- 
bility to retain usual stimulants, her condition at 
the end of thirty days was beginning to show 
evidence of a collapse. However, the faculties 
of the mind had never entirely deserted her. Al- 
though she appeared to get but very little sleep, 
she at intervals seemed to be a little dazed, but at 
this period she had in some way become con- 
vinced that death was near, for during the last 
three days she had on three different occasions 
called her husband to her side to give instruc- 
tions regarding her funeral ceremonies. Every- 
one but the husband being much of the same 
mind, conditions were becoming quite serious. 
It was 8 p. M. when she made her last request, 
^and as the husband quietly withdrew into the 



POWER OF SUGGESTION. HI 

adjoining room, he, too, was almost tempted to 
think that it was only one more step to the great 
beyond. 

Sitting down in the glare of a dimly lighted 
chandelier, with his arm resting on a table, cov- 
ered with some scientific books, his mind filled 
with thoughts of love, and the approaching cli- 
max of a companion of many years, he was won- 
dering if there was not a way to postpone the 
struggle. After nearly an hour of meditation, 
he involuntarily took a book from the table and 
opened it at page 156. It was The Law of 
Psychic Phenomena by Hudson. 

The passage which most attracted his atten- 
tion was that pertaining to the power of oral 
suggestion to heal even if the material (objective) 
mind did not believe. These pages had fre- 
quently been read before without much thought, 
but now the entire chapter had suddenly become 
very important. It was read, and a new plan 
formulated, and with full confidence in its suc- 
cess, he enters the sick chamber again about 10 
p. M. He speaks to the two nurses of his plan 
and requests their mental aid, which is promised. 
He goes to the bedside, but remembering the 
antagonistic views of his wife for all such meth- 
ods, he first obtains her promise to do him a 



112 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

favor, to which she consents. Then he immedi- 
ately tells her to repeat orally these words, after 
him : *' I am going to sleep well tonight, wake 
up refreshed in the morning, and grow better 
daily." 

Having made up her mind to die, she, at first, 
was very determined in her refusal to repeat it, 
but was finally persuaded, and at first made a 
feeble attempt in a half-hearted way. But, being 
again persuaded, she finally repeated the words 
boldly and correctly, at the conclusion of which 
the nurse was audibly directed to prepare her for 
a good night's rest, and turn down the light. 
The husband retired to the adjoining room and 
also retired for the night. It was the only quiet 
night and the only good night's rest that either 
patient or attendants had experienced for four 
weeks, and when the patient awakened, at 6 
A. M., her temperature was, for the first time, 
down to 102 instead of i04j^, as it was the days 
previous, and from this on she steadily improved 
and soon became convalescent, and in a month or 
so she was enjoying better health than she had 
experienced for many just previous. 

This, to my mind, is a true demonstration of 
the wonderful power c:*^ suggestion, as it was 
under most aggravating circumstances. How- 



POWER OF SUGGESTION. 113 

ever, in this instance, the power of mental telep- 
athy was also prominent, as both of the nurses 
seemed to be unusually intelligent and quite 
familiar with the laws governing the method 
adopted. Consequently, it was a test of the 
power of three strong, active, spiritual minds 
over one. Under such conditions, no other re- 
sult was possible. 

However, thought is here again shown to be 
the original creative power. Without it, the sug- 
gestion would not have been made. It is the 
moving force of the universe. Like electricity, 
it has waves through which it is transmitted, and 
whether expressed by telepathy or oral sugges- 
tion, it is the force that stimulates the mind and 
builds up character. Suggestion follows thought, 
and if it be true, as shown by Hudson in The 
Law of Psychic Phenomena, " the spiritual mind 
is constantly amenable to control by power of 
suggestion." He also says : " It is well known 
that the symptoms of almost any disease can be 
induced in hypnotic subjects by suggestion; par- 
tial or total paralysis can be produced ; fever can 
be brought on, with all the attendant symptoms, 
such as rapid pulse and high temperature, flushed 
face, etc. ; or chills accompanied by a temper- 
ature abnormally low; or the most severe pains 

8 



114 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

can be produced in any part of the body or limbs." 
This is confirmed by other prominent scientists, 
leaving no doubt of the possible results of oral 
suggestion. 

Faith. 

There is another most potent attribute of the 
mind designated as faith, which The Law of 
Psychic Phenomena says " is the essential per- 
quisite to the successful exercise of psychic 
power, is a proposition which has received the 
sanction of the concurrent experience of all the 
ages. 

" Jesus when upon earth demonstrated his abil- 
ity to perceive the entire law as no man ever be- 
fore or since has been able to do, and he did not 
hesitate to declare that faith was the most potent 
condition of the mind, before healing. That re- 
quired for therapeutic purposes was from the 
spiritual mind, and was best obtained when all 
active opposition from the material mind had 
ceased." Faith is not only essential in healing, 
but is the powerful lever that carries man to suc- 
cess in all pursuits in life. 

Thus while it is already shown that it is not 
essential to secure the faith of the material mind, 
it would be much more desirable if the faith of 



FAITH. 115 

both were obtained. Through the methods of 
Christian Science there will be found many for- 
cible illustrations of the power of suggestion and 
faith without the aid and belief of the material 
mind, and while they have through prejudice or 
error or education of youth received much censure 
from other societies who decline the advantages 
of advanced thought and light, they have not 
only accomplished great good in the world, but 
have by virtue of this intelligent creative power, 
gone on and on in spite of a determined opposi- 
tion, spreading and increasing in numbers per- 
haps more rapidly than any other Christian so- 
ciety of the age. 

As I have been reared under the auspices of a 
very strict orthodox denomination, the province 
of this book is not to condemn, but rather to en- 
deavor to display all good. Thus my sympathy 
goes out to all who are earnestly striving to 
benefit humanity. From the record of the prog- 
ress of this Society of New Thought during the 
last thirty years (its term of existence), it is 
plainly apparent to me that much of the light 
might, with safety, be introduced into the older 
creeds. A thread of the fundamental principles 
of Love and Truth runs through all, and in order 
to keep constantly in normal poise with that ever- 



116 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

increasing power, the various creeds must find 
great advantage and progress by opening them- 
selves to the inflow of a higher hght, and let it 
manifest through them. Or, to be more plain, 
it is simply death for a man or a society to re- 
main in the same old beaten paths. God's method 
of promoting progress in any great achievement 
is by virtue of His law of evolution. Let this 
be the watchword of the church : Be faithful and 
multiply and replenish and subdue. Such is the 
duty of mankind. 

MAN'S BIRTHRIGHT. 
Gen. I: 2y and 28. 

27th. " So God created man in his own image. 
In the image of God created he him; male 
and female created he them. 

28th. " And God blessed them, and God said 
unto them. Be fruitful and multiply, and re- 
plenish the earth, and subdue it; and have 
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over 
the fowl of the air, and over every living 
thing that moveth upon the earth." 
The two verses above are a part of the record 

of God's original creation, and again repeated, so 

that the reader may better understand the divine 



MAN'S BIRTHRIGHT. 117 

idea of the power transmitted to mankind, on the 
sixth day of creation. 

According to my interpretation as previously 
shown, the original material being, the man with 
only a brain mind, was created on the fifth day 
with other animal creation, but in due course of 
time, by virtue of the law of evolution, there be- 
came a necessity for increased power. So God 
in his wisdom selects the highest type of animal 
creation, which was man, and on the sixth day 
endows the newly born creature man with spir- 
itual attributes, thus creating within him a dual 
mind, blessed by being permitted to grow into a 
condition of paradise, a free moral agent, a 
power to do as the material mind would direct. 
A line of duty plainly marked out for future 
guidance in the pathway of life. Be fruitful, mul- 
tiply, replenish and subdue the earth, and have 
dominion over every living thing that moveth 
upon the earth. 

Such were the blessings given to mankind by 
his creator on the sixth day. 

This attribute of mind is the most potent of 
all, because being in the image and likeness of 
God, it is the spiritual intelligence of man; the 
power that perceives God^s method and intricate 



118 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

workings of a divine law, based upon love and 
truth. 

God is not a man with flesh and body like man- 
kind, but is, as I have endeavored to display to 
the mind of the reader, the Spirit of Love and 
Truth, the Spirit of all Good, the spirit of that 
intelligent law that controls the universe. Man- 
kind, male and female, by being thus endowed 
with the divine spirit of love and truth, is by 
virtue of his birthright an heir to the sonship, 
and all who accept and acknowledge this divine 
power and truly use it, always in the Spirit of 
Love and Truth, in accordance with the example 
displayed by Jesus and his apostles, will be en- 
dowed with greater spiritual power and become 
true Sons of God, with all power. 

In exercising my love for a neighbor, and 
knowing the weakness of many readers in remem- 
bering the most potent features of God's law, and 
in order to make m,yself very plain, I have 
thought it wise to make the above repetitions. 

Like Adam and Eve, there may be some who 
have fallen from the path of duty, and on the 
road to redemption and following closely in my 
wake, seeking the truth of the tree of life, which 
will appear in due time. 

It is apparent from man's birthright that all 



MAN'S BIRTHRIGHT. 119 

things of the world are created for his enjoy- 
ment, when rightly used. Conquer, create and 
help suffering humanity — let this be his watch- 
word if he would attain success and happiness. 

Dr. Orison Sweet Marden, editor of Success 
Magazine, says : "If you would succeed up to 
the limits of your possibilities, hold constantly 
to the belief that you are success organized and 
that you will reach your goal. No matter what 
opposes, never allow a shadow of a doubt to en- 
ter your mind that the Creator intends you to 
win life's battles. What matters it if you are 
poor, or if your environments are unfavorable. 
Such conditions should excite you to greater ef- 
fort, arouse your more indomitable determina- 
tion to conquer. Stoutly deny the power of ad- 
versity or poverty to keep you down. Constantly 
assert your superiority to your environments. 
Believe that you are to dominate your surround- 
ings, that you are to be master, and not the slave 
of circumstances. The highest service a young 
man can render to himself, and to the world, is 
to make the most possible out of the stuff that is 
in him, to develop himself, not partially, not in a 
one-sided way. It is his first duty, not to make 
money, but to m.ake the best possible man of him- 



120 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

self. A half developed human being is not a 
man. 

" There is something greater and nobler in life 
than piling up dollars or the ownership of houses, 
lands and rich furniture. Dreary people and the 
calamity howling man go through life always 
ready to borrow trouble, and make mountains 
out of mole-hills; they live in moral dungeons." 

" Away with these fellows who go howling 
through life," said Beecher, " and all the while 
pass for birds of paradise. He that cannot laugh 
and be gay should look to himself. He should 
fast and pray until his face break forth into 
light." 

" America has become a nation of money 
makers and money talkers. At this period, noth- 
ing talks so forcibly as money." Greed, selfish- 
ness, treachery and deceit are rapidly usurping 
the throne of freedom, and unless this attribute of 
mind receives a speedy check, this fair land of 
boasted Liberty will soon be within the throes 
of materialism. 

Character Building. 

It is character that needs improvement, not 
only in national affairs, but in the individuality 



CHARACTER BUILDING. 121 

of the man. The home training at this age is 
lacking and should be speedily revised. 

''Every child is born into the world with some 
special attributes of the mind, and if this be prop- 
erly cultivated, it will grow into full stature and 
be what the Creator intended it to be. Man 
should not allow his education or his employment 
to efface the stamp placed upon him by the divine 
hand." 

To live in accord with this understanding, with 
the two minds evenly balanced, the material mind 
judiciously educated, the world may be able to 
record a great genius, a great orator, a great 
inventor, a Shakespeare, a Washington, or a 
Lincoln. Jesus of Nazareth was born of great 
spiritual attributes but with a mind more evenly 
poised than any other known character. For 
this reason, if no other, he was more the Son 
of God than ahy other man of record; more in 
oneness with the heavenly Father. Therefore, 
he possessed a greater perceptive power of the 
laws pertaining to the soul, and the government 
of the universe. 

It is a well established fact, as demonstrated 
by the record history of the old patriarchs, that 
the more spiritual and evenly balanced in mind, 



122 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

the more able they were to prophesy and predict 
events, interpret dreams, etc. 

There is nothing which all mankind admires 
so much in character as simple truth, void of 
duplicity and design. There can be no medium; 
that which is not true is false; exaggeration is 
but another name for falsehood, and cannot be 
practiced without causing trouble and vexation. 
Truth is the standard by which all character is 
measured. Among many of the ancient nations 
of former days truth and honor were more 
sought after than wealth. The spiritual attri- 
bute of many must at that time have been more 
active than at this period. 

At this age, the entire world seems to be drift- 
ing into materialism, and the standard of man 
is measured by the number of dollars that he con- 
trols. This being true the material mind is evi- 
dently in the ascendency. Thus, as a rule, the 
controlling elements of to-day are not well bal- 
anced, and conditions are becoming abnormal, 
and unless they be checked will lead to destruc- 
tion. Wealth to-day is the passport to honor; 
but how often do we hear it said that " There is 
no true glory or greatness without virtue. Riches 
always make a man covetous. Fine palaces make 
him despise the poor and poverty." 



CHARACTER BUILDING. 123 

In the building up of character, the most im- 
portant attribute of the mind is thought. The 
old familiar expression that " Thoughts are 
things " is now plainly seen to be true. 

Science has almost demonstrated that there is 
but one kind of matter and that the entire uni- 
verse is not only mental but alive. If Science 
is right that all thought is matter, and every 
phase of matter radiates its kind, and all that is 
called matter is nothing but electricity, being 
various combinations of corpuscles into atoms, 
then no entity exists but electricity, and this, 
then, is life, thought, mind and matter. How 
important, then_, that harmonic corpuscles are 
sent out from the brain. 

Another important feature in the molding of 
character is the teaching received in early youth. 
Each child that has a fair education obtains 
its first mental direction from the parents, and 
then from others its general knowledge. But its 
success or failure in life depends mainly on the 
influence of the first teaching of the parent. An 
eminent divine once said to me : " Give me the 
child until it is seven years of age, and the world 
may then take it." In fact, advanced minds claim 
that the child will learn more in the way of actual 
facts from the day of its birth until the end of 



124 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

its seventh year than it can possibly learn in all 
the remaining part of its life. 

Therefore, the spiritual attainments of the pa- 
rents, and especially the mother, become another 
most important element in the early rearing of 
the child, and this is why the Master, who knew 
the law, said, *' Bring up the child in the way 
it should go and it will not depart from it." As 
every normal child comes into the world with 
two minds, both should receive wise and judi- 
cious training from the parent. And this can 
best be demonstrated by a full understanding of 
the divine law. Neither of these minds should 
be over-indulged or neglected. To grow into 
maturity with an evenly balanced mind is the 
greatest blessing that the parent could desire for 
the offspring. For example let the reader re- 
view with me some important conditions under 
which Jesus of Nazareth, the only true begotten 
Son of record, was born and reared, producing 
the most noble character known to mankind. 

Without entering into any very extended dis- 
cussion of questions relating to his divine con- 
ception, a fact which is supposed by many to be 
unnatural and miraculous, I will simply say 
again that with God there are no miracles, as the 
divine law can not be violated without penalty, 



CHARACTER BUILDING. 125 

but by virtue of it, under proper conditions, all 
things are possible. Consequently, if this birth 
was brought about through some unusual meth- 
od, as the Scriptures seem to indicate, there must 
be a law for it, not yet defined by the human 
mind. Scien'ce is not yet able to give any satis- 
factory explanation, but let the Christian world 
wait a while longer. God's methods may for 
a time seem mysterious, but as the Spirit of 
Truth further develops, all of the supposed mi- 
raculous violations of divine law will be ac- 
counted for. Man, in his ignorance, may cry, 
" Miracle," but God, the intelligent Creator, 
knows all to be law and truth. 

Many other mysteries of former ages, upon 
which man hangs all of his hopes of salvation, 
have since- been satisfactorily explained as truth. 
Why not this one? This was not the only mys- 
tery regarding the life of Jesus. See the ascen- 
sion in the sky. In fact, where is there a record 
of any duplication of his career from the banks 
of the Jordan to the crown on Calvary! How- 
ever remarkable, Science has already found a 
law for a great part of it, and I feel confident 
that it will, in time, be able to define a law 
for the remainder. 

Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a poor virgin 



126 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

who had been reared in obscurity in Nazareth, 
under the care of Joseph, to whom she was es- 
poused, both being Hneally descended from the 
house of David, from whose loins it was fore- 
told the Messiah would come. Both had lived 
a most pure and devout life, under the spiritual 
teaching of the Jewish law, in constant com- 
munion and in oneness with God. So near that 
both were informed by a spiritual perception of 
this great event, before it actually took place. 
They were fully cognizant of the remarkable part 
they were to take in the world's history and 
gloried in it, and were thus prepared for a cor- 
rect line of spiritual prenatal culture of the child, 
which they believed was the coming Savior of 
mankind, which to a very great extent would 
account for his thorough spiritual understand- 
ing of the divine principle of the law governing 
the soul and the universe. 

If humanity would give more attention to the 
importance of prenatal culture of the offspring, 
the spiritual attributes of the mind might be 
much improved in the coming generations. To 
neglect the most important epoch of the child's 
life, is an error which the parent will be held 
accountable for under the workings of the divine 
law, '' for as we sow, so shall we reap." The 



CHARACTER BUILDING. 127 

first few years of training being the most ef- 
fectual, the parent should develop and teach an 
attitude of love and good will for all humanity, 
learn to praise and worship the good in all walks 
of life. Go into the silence and draw the mantle 
of your own thoughts about you, and you will 
soon realize that the spirit of divine love, wis- 
dom, peace, power and plenty is leading and pro- 
tecting you. This is the way to " pray without 
ceasing." 

The child of seven years who has this attribute 
of mind will not, as a rule, depart from it, but 
will grow into maturity, with a conscious reali- 
zation that the higher powers are doing the guid- 
ing, all in continual harmony and oneness with 
infinite life and power. It is thus it becomes 
possible for the higher laws to be revealed, and 
bring each one into greater harmony with them- 
selves, and knowing that all of God's gifts are 
for use, but must be used wisely if they are to 
be enjoyed. To adopt and live a life of harmony 
and find the Son within is the new birth. This 
is what Jesus implied when he said to Nicodemus 
he " must be born again." 

It is thus man must abandon the life of Adam 
and Eve, and come into a realization of the fact 
that he has found the Christ within himself. 



128 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

Like Jesus, he will awaken to a realization 
of the principles under which he was endowed 
by his Creator as a birthright, and have domin- 
ion over a kingdom which God ^n his wisdom 
has prepared for those who signify their willing- 
ness to assume their endowed rights and walk 
in harmony with the divine law. And in the 
degree that man attains this attitude of mind, 
does he obtain all power. 

The reformer frequently finds it quite easy to 
assume this condition of mind, but it is not so 
easy to maintain it. 

Man being endowed with a dual mind, the 
material and the spiritual, with the latter subject 
to the suggestive control of the former, many 
temptations are sure to present themselves. They 
come in the form of a desire for worldly attain- 
ments, a desire for money or a desire for a posi- 
tion in the world, which for a time may dazzle 
and electrify the controlling elements of the ma- 
terial mind, and in the absence of a proper culti- 
vation of the spiritual mind, the spiritual will 
not be able to combat this alluring influence; 
thus man by virtue of a weakness in spiritual 
thought again falls. 

But if the spiritual mind, through proper train- 
ing, has become normally strong and powerful 



CHARACTER BUILDING. 129 

as it should be under man's endowed right, it 
will be able to withstand the usual error influ- 
ence of the material mind without wavering. 

In the child, the spiritual mind is manifested 
sufficiently strong to prevent it plunging into any 
great error; this is usually called instinct, but 
in the human being, I think the better word 
would be the spiritual perception of the mind 
which God endowed it with for its guidance and 
protection. 

In infancy, when the germ is first developed, 
the child is endowed with these two important 
attributes of mind, and if the education of either 
is neglected to any great extent, it will grow up 
into abnormal conditions, and lacking proper 
power, not as originally designed by an all wise, 
intelligent Creator. 

The evidence pertaining to the childhood of 
Jesus previous to his public ministry is, for some 
cause, rather meager. As to his life from the 
age of twelve to thirty, the Scriptural records are 
almost silent. 

However there is enough to show that while 
he may not have received the advantage of a 
finished education, he did in early years acquire, 
at least, an accomplished home training from 
parents who, although poor and humble, were 

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130 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

well versed in the spiritual and Mosaic laws. 
And with his ability to perceive and understand, 
which he most ably exemplified at the age of 
twelve years during an annual pilgrimage of the 
family to the City of Jerusalem, on which occa- 
sion he became lost for three days, and when 
found, was sitting in the temple with the learned 
doctors, who were greatly amazed at the wisdom 
of his questions, and the ability displayed in his 
replies, which created in the minds of his hear- 
ers great astonishment, from the fact that it 
came from one so young. 

Notwithstanding the silence of the Scriptures 
regarding the greater part of his life, they make 
special note of this. Thus, in early years of his 
life, it will be seen that he gave instance of 
amazing penetration and consummate wisdom 
regarding the divine law. And the faculties of 
his mind were enlarged in proportion to the 
growth of his body in so much that he developed 
a mind of perfect understanding of spiritual in- 
telligence. 

Although there is not much authentic evidence 
regarding the life of Jesus for the next eighteen 
years preceding his ministry, it is reasonable to 
suppose that under the teaching of the Jewish 
church of which he would, in consequence of his 



CHARACTER BUILDING. 131 

well known ability become very familiar, his 
spiritual attitude must in that time have become 
wonderfully advanced. 

Let these conditions and circumstances sur- 
rounding his birth be what they may, if we are 
to believe the teaching of the Scriptures, Jesus 
came into the world as a true representative of 
man, an example for all mankind in his physical 
life and manifestations. He came to show all 
humanity the way to the tree of life, for he said 
to his disciples, '' I am the way, the truth and 
the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by 
me'' (John xiv :6), differing from other men only 
in ability of perceptive power of distinguishing 
the relations of the laws of the spiritual mind, 
with the physical world. 

At the age of thirty, we again see him in 
the country of the Jordan listening to the remark- 
able discourse of John the Baptist, for the fame 
of his preaching and baptizing had spread 
throughout all Judea. And Jesus, like other 
young men, had followed the eager multitudes 
to hear more of the wisdom of God proclaimed. 
With thoughts of soon entering the ministry him- 
self, I can in mind see him in the surging masses 
drawing closer and closer so as to hear the words 
of the great preacher. 



132 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

"John seeth Jesus coming unto him, saith, 
* Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away 
the sin of the world.' 

" And John bare record, saying, * I saw the 
Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and 
it abode upon him. 

" And I knew him not ; but he that sent me to 
baptize with water, the same said unto me. Upon 
whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and 
remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes 
with the Holy Ghost. 

" And I saw and bear record, that this is the 
Son of God." (John i 129, ^2 to 34.) 

THE SON. 

/ Am the Way to the Tree of Life, 

Some of the most potent features of the divine 
law are not, in a general way, understood by the 
Christian world of to-day. And why ? In answer, 
I would say it is mainly the fault of error edu- 
cation. The minister of the Gospel, if he takes 
any advanced steps, is called a heretic and soon 
dismissed, plainly showing that the old Christian 
organizations are not yet ready, they are not 
complying with the teachings of the divine law, 
they are not holding themselves open to an inflow 



THE SON. 133 

of spiritual truths as they develop; therefore all 
advanced spiritual light must come to man out- 
side of these older church societies. 

The author of this book has, perhaps, heard 
nearly as many sermons as any other man of 
his age, but he has never yet heard this Son-ship 
of man nor the Sin against the Holy Ghost prop- 
erly defined from the pulpit. Thus it remains 
for Paradise Lost and Won to go forth to the 
world on wings of love to again define the true 
way to eternal life as Jesus taught it. Let the 
world read and listen to the echo, and if the 
spirit of truth is not plainly apparent, cast its 
teaching aside as unworthy of notice. 

Jesus said, '' I AM (meaning the spiritual 
mind) the bread of life; he that cometh to me 
shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me 
shall never thirst " (meaning all who come 
through the divine law and believeth in the law, 
should never die) (John vi:35). "And this is 
the will of Him that sent me, that everyone which 
seeth the Son, and believeth on him may have 
everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the 
last day." (John vi:40.) Meaning that all who 
come into a conscious realization of this attribute 
of mind, this son-ship within themselves would 
have everlasting life. 



134 PARADISE LOST AND WOK 

This spiritual mind is the bread that Jesus 
alluded to when he said " I am the bread which 
came down from heaven. And this is the bread 
which a man may eat thereof, and not die." The 
bread that Jesus gave for the life of the world 
was his flesh. Meaning this, that before man 
can come into a full realization of the spirit of the 
Holy Ghost he must abandon all sense of the 
material attribute of mind and his usual methods 
of obtaining happiness through worldly means, 
and live under the dictates of the spiritual mind. 
When Jesus used the words " I AM," his mean- 
ing was the spiritual mind. The words " Heav- 
enly Father "or ''Me " were used to indicate 
the divine law, and in using the word '' flesh " 
he meant the material mind or the brain, under 
control of the five physical senses. 

This spiritual attribute of mind is all and all 
to man, and for this reason we have God's chief 
command, which says : Thou shalt love the Lord 
thy God (meaning the divine spirit within thy- 
self) with all thy heart and with all thy soul 
and with all thy mind, and in failing to do this, 
man simply commits the sin against the Holy 
Ghost. 

This, to my mind, was the most potent feature 
of the teaching of Jesus and those who under- 



THE SON. 135 

Stood and lived under this principle were en- 
dowed with the Holy Ghost, and all power was 
given them under the divine law. In the first 
years of the Christian era, there were many 
teachers who possessed a true understanding of 
the divine teachings of the Master, but where is 
that class to-day? Ministers of the Gospel, if 
truly called, are sent forth by the Spirit to teach, 
and to save the lambs who have gone astray, not 
to follow in the old beaten path of error, for- 
ever and ever. It was not the intention nor the 
desire of Jesus for man to worship his flesh or 
mortal mind, but rather the divine attributes 
taught and manifested within. All religious 
movements are tinctured with error; truth is not 
confined to any one creed, but is infinite in its 
manifestations. The divine method is a law of 
evolution. To be a teacher or a true Christian, 
man cannot stand still; he must progress. Let 
the higher light beam forth, do not waver, do 
not wait; humanity is dying! 

I am lifting the curtains of mystery 
I am shedding rays of light from behind 

I would await the reflection from Deity 
To develop in the mind of mankind. 



136 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

THE SON, THE GLORIFIED ONE. 

An Example for All Mankind, 

From all the evidence produced, John the Bap- 
tist had taken every available means to prepare 
the multitudes for the reception of the promised 
Messiah, whom he had proclaimed would shortly 
appear to them in the character of the Savior of 
Israel. His discourses were so fervent and sin- 
cere that he had become renowned throughout 
all Judea, and the admiration of the people had 
become so great that many were ready to pro- 
nounce him the promised Redeemer. But being 
pious in principle, and humble in heart, he de- 
clined the honors and said^ '* I indeed baptize 
you with water ; but one mightier than I cometh, 
the latchet of whose shoes I am unworthy to 
loose." (Luke iii:i6.) 

So John, who was ever on the watch for the 
promised token, beholds Jesus approaching and 
the Spirit like a dove descending upon him, and 
as he came nearer he saw the Spirit still remained 
with him, so he says, " I have need to be bap- 
tized of thee; and comest thou to me?" The 
answer of Jesus was short and forcible : " Suffer 
it to be so now ; for thus it becometh us to fulfill 
all righteousness." In other words, it is neces- 



THE SON, THE GLORIFIED ONE. 137 

sary that we, in the minutest detail, conform to 
the divine will. Thus he added his sanction to 
the ordinance of baptism. 

The ceremony of baptism being performed, 
he went straightway out of the water, kneeling 
on the bank of the river, reverently thanked the 
heavenly Father for such an abundant expression 
of the Holy Spirit; so much needed in the public 
ministry of his mission. 

And in order to better prepare himself for the 
great work in mind, he sees the necessity of a 
season of solitude and of fasting free from all 
noise and hurry of mortal life, to be all alone in 
communion with the Spirit, so that by medita- 
tion and prayer he might increase his power to 
withstand the usual temptations of the world, and 
as a physical preparation necessary to the attain- 
ment of higher powers. This condition of soli- 
tude and silent thought was the wilderness into 
which the Spirit led him. 

He thus came into a complete realization of 
his oneness with the heavenly Father, and fully 
realized his power for doing good, and the pos- 
sibilities which awaited him, if he chose to exer- 
cise that power for selfish ends. 

The sacred historian attempts to describe this 
scene by another allegory, and as the masses of 



138 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

the Christian world are loath to interpret it, I 
shall picture the truth as I see it from a natural 
or scientific standpoint. 

THE THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS. 

The Same Which Come to All Mankind. 

" And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost re- 
turned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit 
into the wilderness. 

" Being forty days tempted of the devil, and 
in those days he did eat nothing, and when they 
were ended he afterward hungered." (Luke iv: 

I, 2.) 

" And when the tempter came to him, he said. 
If thou be the Son of God, command that these 
stones be made bread. But he answered and 
said. It is written, Man shall not live by bread 
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of 
the mouth of God." (Matt. iv:3, 4.) 

The Messiah having appeared, the mission of 
John the Baptist is finished, and in consequence 
of the fact, the people were hastening to spread 
the glad tidings at their homes, the preaching 
in the country of Jordan was ended. 

Thus after the baptism of Jesus by John, Jesus 
being filled with the Holy Ghost, with no thought 
of companions or the bustle and confusion of 



THE THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS. 139 

the slowly moving caravans, he also departs on 
his journey tp the home country, and, as the wil- 
derness indicates, solitary and alone, a mind filled 
with silent thoughts and in deep meditation and 
prayer^ he followed in the wake of the multitudes. 
His mind being thus so freely occupied, and the 
importance of the moment so impressive that his 
appetite and desires for the physical necessities 
were for the time forgotten. His journey home- 
ward by the mode of travel then in vogue, no 
doubt occupied the greater part, or perhaps all, 
of the forty days. Lost to all his earthly en- 
vironments, he moves along over the desert 
wastes in the wake of the dusty, slow-moving 
caravans in a spiritual attitude only. 

The tempter in this instance appears to Jesus 
in the same manner and uses the same subtle 
methods as were used to promote the fall of 
Adam and Eve. The devil alluded to in this 
allegory is only an illustration of that old, old 
story of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, that 
desire for worldly attainments which appears to 
all mankind. As the historian, according to the 
custom of that age, has seen proper to only pic- 
ture this great event in an allegory, it remains 
for the light developing at the dawn of the 
twentieth century to picture the reasonable cir- 



140 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

cumstances which have ever surrounded this 
great truth in the mind of the Christian world. 

Under the previous promptings of the spiritual 
mind, he was convinced that a forty days' fast 
was a necessary physical preparation to the at- 
tainment of full spiritual power. But now, as 
he wanders along the desert and mountain trails, 
in solitude and aloof from friends and acquaint- 
ances, nearing the home of his youth, the forty 
days is not yet ended, but he has awakened to 
a realization of his physical condition and de- 
sires; and thus by a mental suggestion of the 
material mind, the first temptation comes. 

He becomes hungered. A desire for physical 
refreshments takes possession of his mind, but 
also realizing that food is not at this time acces- 
sible, his material mind by further mental sug- 
gestion, knowing that the spiritual mind has now 
all power, urges it to take advantage of its in- 
creased power and satisfy the cravings of the 
body by creating bread or food out of the stones 
strewn along his pathway. Or in other words, 
" If thou be the Son of God, command that these 
stones be made bread." The spiritual mind readily 
understood this suggestion as a temptation to the 
exercise of its newly endowed power (the spirit 
of the Holy Ghost) not only for selfish and per- 



THE THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS. 141 

sonal ends, but for the promotion of an object 
unholy of purpose, untentative with the exercise 
of the additional powers which the spiritual mind 
desired to maintain, to listen to which, at this 
time, was to lose the power recently attained. 

But by virtue of this additional power which 
comes through the Holy Ghost, the sp^" ritual mind 
of Jesus is no longer entirely subject to the sug- 
gestion of the material mind, and being ever 
awake and alert, takes a more decided part in the 
control of human events, and hastens to make a 
mental reply to the material mind like this, '' Man 
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word 
that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Or, 
in other words, he is to live now by the dictates 
of the spiritual mind. 

" Then the devil taketh him up into a holy city 
and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple. 

'* And sayeth unto him. If thou be the Son of 
God, cast thyself down; for it is written. He 
shall give his angels charge concerning thee ; and 
in their hands shall they bear thee up, lest at any 
time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 

'' Jesus said unto him. It is written again, thou 
shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." (Matt, iv: 
5 to 7,) 

The first suggestion of the material mind hav- 



142 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

ing so signally failed, a second attempt is now 
made on different lines, the first having applied to 
his sense of personal necessity, or selfish attri- 
butes, the evil spirit now tempts his worldly 
pride and vanity. And again, in a mental, subtle 
voice of flattery, tells him of the increased power 
in which the spiritual mind is now endowed. And 
in the event that he should fall, the infinite spirit 
within him is not only able, but will hasten to 
again restore him to normal condition. 

To this the spiritual mind of Jesus, discerning 
the subtle motive, immediately replies, not so, 
for it is also written, "Thou shalt not tempt the 
Lord thy God." Or, in other words, man shall 
not purposely use this increased gift of power 
merely as a test, or for a show, neither for the 
plaudits of the public, but if he desires to retain 
it, the principle of the divine law requires it to 
be always used through a spirit of love and truth 
and for the good of humanity. 

"And again the devil taketh him up into an 
exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all 
the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. 

" And sayeth unto him. All these things will 
I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship 
me. " 

" Then sayeth Jesus unto him. Get thee hence. 



THE THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS. 143 

Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the 
Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 

" Then the devil leaveth him, and behold 
angels came and ministered unto him." (Matt. 
iv:8 to II.) 

The first and second effort of the material 
mind to usurp the throne which the spiritual 
intelligent mind now forcibly maintains, having 
failed of purpose, the material mind as depicted 
in the last verses just read, makes a final attempt 
to regain the lost sceptre by subterfuge, and 
deceit, the method pursued in the Garden of 
Eden. 

Again the power of mental therapeutics is 
the method through which the suggestions are 
transmitted. The devil, in the guise of the ma- 
terial mind, makes another mental suggestion to 
the spiritual mind. It displays all the worldly 
glory and advantages to be attained by virtue of 
his great power and renown if he would only 
cater to the desires of the public and be content 
with a worldly crown. 

It was a thought sent from the material to the 
spiritual mind which said. With the unlimited 
power which through divine right you possess, 
you are now in condition to claim and occupy 
any position of magnitude in the gift of the 



144 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

world, even to a crown and sceptre, having do- 
minion over all other kingdoms of the material 
universe, if you will only exercise your power 
for worldly ambitions, and relinquish the spiritual 
attitude of mind which you now maintain. 

But the spiritual mind of Jesus is now more 
fully developed and strongly manifested, for it 
answers quickly and to the point in this wise, 
" Get thee hence, Satan." '' For it is written, 
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him 
only shalt thou serve." The same as to say. 
The deception you practice is beneath my notice. 
The divine law tells me that the spirit of Love 
and Truth is the way ; there is no God to worship ^ 
but this. 

After these three vain attempts to regain con- 
trol, the material mind acknowledges defeat, and 
the spiritual mind assumes perfect dominion over 
the functions of the dual mind of man, as indi- 
cated by the next verse, which says, ''Then the 
devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and 
ministered unto him." As much as to say. All 
error though disappeared, and in their stead, good 
thoughts prompted by the spirit of Love and 
Truth were his only companions. 

" There is a great fundamental principle under- 
lying the refusal of Jesus to exercise his power 



THE THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS. 145 

for selfish ends or for idle or worldly display, 
applying with special force to the employment of 
psychic power to healing of the sick. Man must 
not endanger his mission by trifling with the gift 
of God." 

In my hypothesis formed for the interpretation 
of the scriptural verse pertaining to the three 
great temptations of Jesus and all mankind, I 
regret to have to differ in one or two very im- 
portant points with some very learned scientific 
minds. I may be wrong, but at this time I can- 
not see my way clearly without doing so. If 
man is to believe the scriptural record of this 
great event, a new and important law has devel- 
oped which will have to be taken into account, in 
order to thoroughly understand the work and 
teachings of the master. 

Some scientific works undertake to prove that 
the dual mind of the normal man is invariably 
under the control of the material mind, and for 
this cause man becomes a free moral agent. To 
my mind this would seem to be true up to a cer- 
tain period. When man is endowed with that 
additional power, " The Spirit of the Holy 
Ghost," a decided change in the duality must 
necessarily take place; the spiritual divine mind 
must then have dominion, or else, how can man 

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146 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

have all power given him? In this work, I 
have endeavored to treat the spiritual endowed 
attributes of the mind of man as the only true 
and intelligent part of mankind. It can never, 
of itself, go wrong; neither will it ever tempt the 
mind to go astray. 

It is the mind that controlled all of the proph- 
ets of great renown that flourished in the dark 
ages. It is the mind that enables man to resist the 
alluring temptations of the world. 

It is the mind upon which man must depend 
to deliver him from sore distress and want. It 
is the mind that enables man to know himself 
and come intO' a conscious realization of his 
oneness with infinite power and recognize himself 
a spiritual being and a true son of God. 

It is the mind that purifies thought and opens 
the door of man's vision to the incoming of the 
angels that minister unto him in the hour of 
gloom and despair, by driving away all fear of 
weakness and bondage, all fear of sickness and 
deathj by fear nothing is gained, but rather all 
is lost. 

It is the mind that remained firm with Jesus 
when poor and hungry, nowhere to lay his head, 
and dependent upon the bounty of friends for his 
daily food, while in pursuit of his mission, and 



THE THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS. 147 

carried him safely to victory over death and 
proclaimed him the Son, the glorified One, the 
Savior of mankind. 

It is the mind, when encompassed by faith that 
inspires man to climb higher and higher the way 
to the tree of life, the fruit of which promotes 
all power. 

A great, immutable law underlies the truth, 
^' Blessed are they that hear the word of God 
and do it." Man is wise in the degree that he 
lives according to this higher light. 

The life of Adam and Eve as shown by Para- 
dise Lost and Won, is simply a true representa- 
tive of the character and life of mankind, and 
the sooner the reader comes into a conscious 
realization of this fact and the truths developing 
in his mind by an earnest perusal of these pages, 
the sooner will he understand the science of 
being. 

Let the reader realize that in early life while 
the minds were evenly poised and living mainly 
under the guidance of reason over the spiritual 
mind, he was living in a condition of paradise 
upon earth, but when the material mind through 
error education, assumed an unnatural influence 
over the spiritual mind, he gradually drifted out 
into the world, away from the spirit of Love and 



148 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

Truth. And in the degree that this attitude of 
mind assumed, in the same degree did he assume 
an attitude of greed, selfishness, envy, vanity and 
false pride, and thus soon forgot the divine law 
which teaches him, that whatsoever ye would that 
men should do to you, do you even so to them; 
this is the fundamental principle of the law under 
which humanity must live in order to be in con- 
tinual oneness with infinite life. Jesus gave it 
in many other forms : 

" Give and it shall be given unto you." 
" With what measure ye mete, it shall be meted 
to you again." 

" Condemn and you shall be condemned." 
" Be merciful and you shall obtain mercy." 
" Forgive and you shall be forgiven." 
*' Judge not and you shall not be judged." 
" They that take the sword shall perish with 
the sword." 

" Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also 
reap." 

And Jesus says, " It is easier for heaven and 
earth to pass than one tittle of the law to fail." 
Thus it would seem that the divine law cannot 
be broken. Therefore there cannot be any such 
acts as miracles. But says Jesus, by virtue of the 
divine law, all things are possible to him who has 



THE THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS. 149 

faith and believes. It was not the province of 
Jesus to violate any of God's laws but rather to 
demonstrate the true way to fulfill them, which 
he did in every instance, as Science is now rap- 
idly discovering. 

The glory of Jesus the Son came not through 
an understanding that he violated the laws insti- 
gated by the heavenly Father, but rather through 
a conscious realization that all of his works and 
deeds were performed through a perfect percep- 
tion of the workings of the divine laws. 

" I am the way," says Jesus. ''By me if any 
man enter in, he shall be saved and go in and 
out and find pasture." (John xiQ.) 

" Whoever enters into the realization of heaven 
through the knowledge, ' I am the Son of God,' 
can walk in perpetual joy and power to do all the 
works of God when and where he wills." 

Thus the way to the Tree of Life is through 
the Sonship; this is the way to find the Christ 
within, this is the way to be born anew, the first 
birth was natural or material, but this second 
birth is spiritual. Thus the old man Adam is put 
off and the new man Christ is put on. Whatever 
man's belief or faith may be, this is the way to 
the Tree of Life, for it is life eternal to know 
God, to come into a conscious realization of one- 



150 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

ness with the heavenly Father, the senses will 
gradually develop and become more perfected, 
and make it possible for the spiritual truths to 
be revealed. And by your fruits will you be 
known, for Jesus says, " These signs shall follow 
them that believe: In my name shall they cast 
out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 
they shall take up serpents; and if they drink 
any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they 
shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover, 
and even greater things shall they do." 

Man must live the life of truth and do the 
will of the heavenly Father in order to be per- 
fectly healed and enjoy the fruits of his Sonship. 
Jesus came upon earth to define the true method 
of fulfilling the law, not how to violate it. And 
his teaching consisted mainly in how to think and 
cultivate the mind. He was the first to proclaim 
the doctrine of faith. Advanced Scientists say: 
*' That word more than any other expresses the 
whole law of human felicity and power in this 
world and of salvation in the world to come. 
It is that attribute of mind which elevates man 
above the level of the brute, and gives him do- 
minion over all the physical world. It is the es- 
sential element of success in every field of human 
endeavor. It constitutes the power of the human 



THE THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS. 151 

soul." When Jesus proclaimed its potency he 
gave to man the key to health and to heaven 
and earned the title of Savior of the human 
race. 

A prominent clergyman in a recent discourse in 
San Francisco is 4-eported as saying that only 
five per cent of men of the State of California 
were members of any church. To my mind there 
must be some grave reason for this, for the intel- 
ligence of the citizens of this state is beyond 
question. In truth, I feel that it is a fact that 
the percentage of intelligence is not surpassed by 
any other state in the country. Then why this 
lack of interest in the teachings of the divine 
apostles ? 

It is not for want of Christian faith in the doc- 
trines taught by Jesus, for nearly every man with 
whom we meet is in full sympathy with the teach- 
ings of the New Testament. Then why this 
antipathy for so many of the older churches? 
Why so many new isms constantly springing up ? 
I might give several good answers, but it is not 
the province of this book to criticise the ministry, 
but rather to define a method for a better under- 
standing of the Scriptures. The average citizen 
of to-day finds it a little monotonous to sit two 
hours in an elegant edifice behind a dozen cart- 



152 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

wheel hats or bonnets Hstening to a discourse 
based on the inteUigent Hght of fifty years ago. 
Out of courtesy to the ladies, many of whom feel 
that they have divine authority to wear their hats 
during church services, I will merely refer them 
to the nth chapter of ist Corinthians, in which 
Paul says the full growth of hair is woman's 
glory, and the proper covering of the head when 
in prayer. I will also say that in olden times, 
under Mosaic dispensation, it was the custom 
of women to wear light shawl coverings over the 
head, and as custom usually makes law, perhaps it 
was authorized for religious service, but this 
could not be a divine precept because to be a 
divine law, it must be for the good of all man- 
kind. Therefore, for the ladies of to-day to 
presume by right to sit in any audience with 
their head decked with a gaudy hat or bonnet, 
and thus obscure the view of a neighbor, it is 
done either through a degree of ignorance, or to 
gratify a selfish or vain attribute of the mind. If 
the ladies as a class who seem to be more devout 
and attentive than their male companions would 
through love for the welfare of a neighbor exer- 
cise a little more forethought, they might, in time, 
increase the percentage of the male attendance. 
Then with the pulpit blessed with an intelli- 



THE THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS. 153 

gent mind, inspired with a spirit of love and 
truth, able to perceive and teach the fundamental 
principle of the divine law, and more of the 
potency of the truth as to the Sonship of man- 
kind which marks the Tree of Life, as Jesus and 
his apostles taught it, and less of a future torment 
of the soul, in a lake of fire and brimstone beyond 
the grave, of which they know absolutely noth- 
ing. Then the glory of the Son, the Christ 
within, in all its peerless beauty and redeeming 
power, will resound through a wave of dazzling 
brightness throughout the land. 

Every normal man has a special talent for 
something. To my mind, no one can write a 
good book without experiencing great benefit; 
neither can he read one without elevating the 
mind. So let each do what God has best fitted 
him for. Do this through a spirit of love for 
thy neighbor, with all thy mind and soul. Then 
all the attributes of the Son within will soon 
be plainly manifested. This is the eating of the 
fruit of the Tree of Life. 

During the first century of the Christian era, 
the apostles whom Jesus sent forth to preach the 
gospel were selected from those of his followers 
who were able through their understanding to 
come into a conscious realization of their Son- 



154 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

ship with the heavenly Father. And when this 
fact became thoroughly established in the mind, 
they were endowed with the Spirit of the Holy 
Ghost. This, it seems, was the necessary acquire- 
ment before assuming the ministry. 

Jesus him.self was thus endowed when bap- 
tized by John ; then the twelve apostles, the first 
to understand the meaning of his teaching, were 
also filled with the Holy Ghost and sent forth 
among the Jews with instructions like this: 

"' And as you go, preach, saying 'The kingdom 
of heaven is at hand.' 

" Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the 
dead, cast out devils. Freely ye have received, 
freely give." (Matt, x:/, 8.) 

In the same manner, seventy more disciples 
were sent out in parties of two, with same in- 
structions, and upon returning reported great suc- 
cess of their mission. Then again, after the 
transfiguration of Jesus, one hundred and twenty 
of the disciples were all gathered together 
in one place, ''when suddenly there came a sound 
from heaven as a rushing, mighty wind, and 
filled all the house where they were sitting, and 
they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and 
began to speak with other tongues as the spirit 
gave them utterance." (Acts xi :2, 4.) 



THE THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS. 155 

And as they went out into the world, they 
were all as one mind, preaching and working 
under the dictates of the Spirit of God, the Son, 
the Christ, within them. With a mind filled with 
a conscious realization of this fact, they became 
all powerful and were thus ably fitted, not only to 
preach the gospel with a proper understanding, 
but also to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out 
devils, etc. And by their works, they were known 
and marked as Christians. The power exercised 
by this Society became so impressive upon the 
mind of the masses and old church organizations, 
that through an attribute of jealousy of many of 
the church officials, who feared some loss of 
power, they were persecuted and slain by the 
rabble whenever it suited their convenience, the 
object being to stamp out the new sect, root and 
branch. But this subtle motive was again doomed 
to disappointment, the spiritual manifestations 
dominating the Son were now too powerful to 
be overcome by the usual methods of the ma- 
terial mind. 

But under the leadership of the few who es- 
caped the slaughter, the Gospel as taught by 
Jesus was transmitted from generation to gener- 
ation to the present age. 

But in doing this, it would seem to those who 



156 PARADISE LOST AND WON. 

dive deep into the Spirit of Truth, that many of 
the potent features taught by the Master and 
his apostles have in some way been lost. 

The fundamental principles of the various 
Christian denominations are the same in all, 
founded upon the doctrine of Love, Truth and 
Faith, as demonstrated by Jesus the Christ when 
upon earth. Then why so many different creeds, 
so many old, unimportant dogmas to handicap 
them? So many antagonistic Isms flaunting 
their banners of new thought in the face of the 
old established church organizations. 

If the Christian world will permit one of hum- 
ble ability, and one who has long sailed under 
the banner of one of the most progressive church 
societies, to make a brief criticism, I would say, 
that there is a great scientific principle under- 
lying this fact. To remain in the old rut is to 
die; to live, we must multiply and replenish. 

There is a grave error somewhere, and if the 
old established denominations desire to longer 
be a power, they must hold themselves open to 
an inflow of intelligent thought, which, through 
the spirit of truth, is so rapidly developing into 
the mind of all mankind. Stop and listen ! Can't 
you hear its steady rumbling march down through 
the ages; don't you hear the echo of a loving 



THE THREE TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS. 157 

voice in the garden: " Adam, where are thou?" 
This was the question that brought Adam and 
Eve into a conscious reahzation of their worldly 
condition and gave them a view of the Tree of 
Life in the distance, to obtain the fruit of which 
they realized that they would first have to go 
forth from, the garden to till the ground from 
which they were taken. 

We may not all be able to grace a pulpit, but 
however humble, there are none too small, too 
feeble or too poor to display the truth or pro- 
claim to the world what God in man hath 
wrought. By this method, thoughts of love go 
out to all humanity. Let man look up tiigher and 
higher, until he sees within himself the Son, the 
glorified One. This is following in the steps of 
Jesus. This is the Tree of Life. This is Para- 
dise Won. 

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